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BROWN 

ALUMNI  MONTHLY 


RESIDENT  FELLOW 


MARCH  1957 


APPROACH  of  the  Brown  Bicentennial  re- 
minds us  of  a  story  Frank  Boyden  of 
Deerfield  told  about  a  pageant  he'd  put 
into  the  program  as  part  of  their  anniver- 
sary a  few  years  back.  A  lady  happened 
into  town  the  afternoon  of  the  big  show 
and  was  somewhat  surprised  to  find  it 
swarming  with  young  Indians,  Colonials, 
Redcoats,  and  the  rest  all  made  up  to  pay 
their  tribute  to  history.  "What's  going  on 
here?"  she  asked. 

"A  pageant."  they  told  her.  "All  about 
the  history  of  the  town  and  the  Academy." 

"Oh.  And  how  often  do  they  do  this  sort 
of  thing?" 

"Every  150  years." 

She  thought  that  one  over,  then  said: 
"Well,  I  guess  I'll  stay." 

>  THE  RETROSPECTIVE  article  about  Hope 
College  in  the  February  issue  reminds  us 
that  showers  in  dormitories  are  a  compara- 
tively modern  luxury.  In  December,  1884, 
the  Advisory  and  Executive  Committee  of 
the  Brown  Corporation  passed  the  follow- 
ing vote:  "That  tickets  be  sold  to  students 
wishing  to  use  the  bathing  tubs  in  the  base- 
ment of  University  Hall  at  the  rate  of  50(} 
for  five  tickets." 

>  WHEN  fraternity  rushing  was  at  its 
height  in  February,  the  subject  got  around 
to  initiation  stunts.  We're  glad  with  every- 
one else  that  they  are  no  longer  public,  but 
some  of  the  old  ones  brought  a  laugh.  One 
favorite  of  the  '30s  was  to  send  a  pledge 
delegation  downtown  to  a  movie  show, 
where  they  scattered  and  took  seats  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  theatre.  In  the  middle  of 
the  show,  one  of  them  had  to  stand  up  and 
inquire  in  a  loud  voice  if  there  was  a  doc- 
tor in  the  house.  Pretty  soon  a  man  would 
rise  from  his  chair  and  admit  that  he  was  a 
doctor.  This  was  the  signal  for  the  15  or 
20  initiates  to  stand  somberly  and  cry  in 
chorus:  "Hi,  doc!" 

>  THE  DEPARTMENT  of  Applied  Math  re- 
cently received  a  letter  from  England  ad- 
dressed to  "Brown  University,  Providence 
12,  Ellis  Island,  U.S.A."  Prof.  Rohn 
Truell  sent  the  envelope  along  to  President 
Keeney  with  this  notation:  "Thought  you'd 
like  to  know  we've  moved  to  the  front 
lines." 

>  A  wiiLTAMs  PROFESSOR  was  puzzled  by 
his  pre-school  daughter's  habit  of  referring 
to  her  sister  as  "Madame  Gazelle."  Finally 
he  realized  it  was  her  distortion  of  the 
French  word  for  a  young  lady. 

>  ON  A  VISIT  to  New  York,  David  Jacobson 
of  Stanford  was  relaxing  when  a  boxer 
struck  up  a  conversation  with  him:  "Where 
you  from.  Bud?" 

"From  the  West  Coast."  said  Jacobson. 

"What's  your  racket.  Bud?" 

"I  work  for  a  university." 

"Oh,  you're  one  of  them  professors." 


"No,  my  job  is  to  raise  money." 

"How  you  doing?" 

"Pretty  well.  About  6  million  this  year." 

"What's  your  cut,  Bud?" 

"I  don't  get  a  cut,  you  see  .  .  ." 

"You're  a  damn  fool.  Bud.  Always  take 
a  cut." 

A  cut?  It  sounded  good  to  Jacobson.  But 
reflection  told  him  he'd  already  had  a  cut: 
"Every  one  of  us  got  a  cut — a  big  one — 
since  the  gifts  of  others  had  helped  pay  for 
our  education." 

>  "DID  YOU  EVER  talk  to  Hurry-Up  Yost?" 
a  friend  asked  Ring  Lardner.  (Edwin  Pope 
records  the  colloquy  in  "Football's  Greatest 
Coaches.")  "No,"  Lardner  replied.  "I  never 
talked  to  him.  My  folks  taught  me  never  to 
interrupt." 


>  A  NUMBER  of  New  England  colleges 
have  engaged  the  prisoners  at  Norfolk  in 
debate,  where  the  convicts  are  very  able  in 
the  sport  though  apologetic  about  not  be- 
ing able  to  schedule  home-and-home.  Dur- 
ing the  intermission  of  one  recent  debate, 
the  prison  band  played:  "If  I  had  the  wings 
of  an  angel." 

>  A  STUDENT  at  Duke,  according  to  Presi- 
dent Edens'  Founders'  Day  address,  was 
complaining  to  the  president  of  the  local 
bus  company  about  the  cost  of  transpor- 
tation. If  the  fare  were  not  reduced,  the 
lad  would  have  to  buy  a  new  car.  He 
couldn't  afford  bus  fare,  he  said. 

>  A  SCHOLAR  at  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan made  a  field  observation  that  answers 
the  ancient  question:  "How  much  vwod 
would  a  woodchuck  chuck  if  a  woodchuck 
would  chuck  wood?"  He  can  and  does 
chuck  some,  according  to  the  Michigan 
Aliiinnus.  but  only  those  twigs  and  pieces 
of  brush  which  interfere  with  his  house- 
building activities. 

>  EVERYONE  is  talking  about  the  hordes 
which  will  descend  upon  the  colleges  in  the 
near  future,  with  attendant  pressures  on 
them  all  for  expansion  to  accommodate  the 
demands.  We  liked  a  comment  by  Presi- 
dent Dodds  on  the  situation  at  Princeton: 
"We  have  no  illusions  of  grandeur  which 
size  will  satisfy." 

BUSTER 


BROWN 

ALUMNI  MONTHLY 


MARCH 

1957 

Vol.  LVII  No.  6 


Board  of  Editors 

Chairman 

C.  Arthur  Braitsch  '23 

Vice-Chairman 
George  W.  Potter  '21 

George  R.  Ashbey  '21 
Garrett  D.  Byrnes  '26 
Warren  L.  Carleen  '48 
Carleton  Goff  '24 
Robert  H.  Goff  '24 
Prof.  I.  J.  Kapstein  '26 

Managing  Editor 
Chesley  Worthington  '2.'? 

Assist  an  I  Editor 

John  F.  Barri.  Jr.,  '50 


In  This  Issue: 

Bliss  Moves  to  U.H. 
West  Quadrangle  Photos 
The  First  College  Hockey 
I  Am  a  Resident  Fellow 
Help  for  School  Teachers 
The  Brown  Clubs  Report 
Brown's  Winter  Varsities 
Brunonians  Far  and  Near 
Letters  in  Our  Mailbox 


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4 
6 
14 
18 
22 
24 
26 
36 


THE  COVER  PHOTO:  Douglas  Snow, 
Resident  Fellow  in  Buxton  House,  tells 
how  he  "got  ahead  of  the  President"  in 
his  lively  story  on  page  14.  On  the  cover 
he  is  with  two  of  his  dormitory  residents 
—Bob  MacKay  '59,  left,  and  Bob  Hell- 
strom  '57,  right,  who  is  President  of 
Buxton  House. 


Published  October.  November,  December.  January,  February,  March,  April,  May,  and  July  by  Brown 
University,  Providence  12,  R.  I.  Admitted  to  the  second  class  of  mail   matter  under  the  Act  of  Au- 
gust 24,  1912,  at  the  Providence  Post  Office.  Additiorial  entry  at  Brattleboro.  \'t.   Member,  American 
Alumni  Council.  The  Magazine  is  sent  to  all  Brown  alumni. 


Dean  of  the 
University 

Appointment  of  Bliss 
to  Administrative  Diitij 
Proves  a  Popular  Move 


PRESIDENT  Keeney  broke  the  news  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Advisory  Council  in  February:  Prof.  Zenas  R.  Bliss  '18, 
Executive  Officer  of  the  Division  of  Engineering,  would  be  the 
new  Dean  of  the  University,  in  this  important  role  to  assist  in 
the  general  administration  of  Brown.  The  delighted  response 
to  the  announcement  was  only  the  first  of  public  indications 
that  this  was  the  most  popular  appointment  on  College  Hill  in 
a  long  while.  "Zene"  Bliss  has  long  had  the  respect  and  friend- 
ship of  colleagues  at  Brown  and  elsewhere,  in  addition  to  the 
regard  of  students  and  alumni.  He  has  talents  and  experience 
which  will  make  his  assumption  of  the  new  portfolio  prompt 
and  understanding. 

Professor  Bliss  will  accept  a  number  of  the  duties  of  the  late 
Provost,  Dr.  Samuel  T.  Arnold  '13.  One  of  his  functions,  ac- 
cording to  the  University  news  release,  will  be  "to  insure  that 
all  of  Brown's  activities  are  bent  to  an  educational  purpose." 
The  Dean  of  the  University,  the  statement  continued,  "will 
coordinate  the  three  branches  of  the  University,  administered 
specifically  by  the  Dean  of  the  College,  the  Dean  of  Pembroke, 
and  the  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School."  President  Keeney  was 
quoted  as  follows: 

"We  have  considered  many  people  for  the  post,  from  out- 
side the  University  as  well  as  from  within,  and  believe  that  Pro- 
fessor Bliss  is  most  particularly  qualified  for  this  important  po- 
sition. He  is  a  respected  alumnus  of  the  University.  He  is  an 
effective  teacher  and  administrator  and  has  been  a  valued 
member  of  many  key  committees.  His  long  connection  with 
the  University  and  the  community  provides  an  element  of  con- 
tinuity that  greatly  strengthens  the  administration." 

Anion^  His  Assignments 

Although  his  teaching  has  been  confined  to  the  Engineering 
Division  since  joining  the  Faculty  in  1923,  Professor  Bliss  has 
at  the  same  time  been  associated  with  the  wider  academic  in- 
terests of  the  University.  He  is  a  former  Chairman  of  the  Ath- 
letic Council  and  has  served  on  the  Faculty  Committee  on 
Curriculum.  He  is  currently  on  the  Committee  on  Academic 
Standing  and  the  Board  of  Admission:  he  is  Secretary  of  the 
Physical  Sciences  Council.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Nautical 
Advisory  Board,  supervising  the  yachting  program. 

One  of  his  duties  in  the  Engineering  Division  has  been  as 
Director  of  Research,  handling  administrative  details  of  Gov- 
ernment contracts.  As  a  Faculty  Counsellor,  he  has  worked 
with  students  in  the  five-year  program  which  leads  to  both  an 
.'Vrts  and  a  Scienc  degree  at  its  conclusion.  His  teaching  has 
been  largely  at  the  undergraduate  level,  with  work  in  Applied 
Mechanics,  Machine  Design,  and  Engineering  Economy. 

It  is  a  little  startling  to  note  in  the  1918  Lihcr  that  Professor 
Bliss'  undergraduate  nickname  was  "Dean."  This,  he  points 
out,  was  due  merely  to  the  fact  that  his  middle  name  was  Ran- 


BLISS:  His  undergraduate  nickname  was  "Dean." 

dall,  and  Otis  E.  Randall  was  then  Dean  of  the  University. 
Bliss  had  prepared  for  Brown  at  Providence  Technical  High 
School,  a  candidate  for  the  Ph.B. 

Why  He  Was  "Grafted" 

"Zene  is  a  grafted  member  of  our  Class,"  says  the  biographi- 
cal note  in  the  yearbook.  "Having  found  the  slow  and  thick- 
headed Juniors  far  below  his  speed,  he  decided  to  jump  a  cog 
and  join  a  good  organization.  When  a  man  graduates  in  three 
years  and  takes  a  large  proportion  of  the  Engineering  courses 
in  the  Catalofiite  to  boot,  we  can  salute  him  with  respect.  He 
is  planning  to  come  back  next  year  and  take  graduate  work  in 
the  Engineering  Department,  just  to  pass  the  time  away  until 
he  gets  old  enough  to  cop  a  commission." 

The  Liber  listed  these  activities:  Sock  and  Buskin,  Sphinx, 
Mandolin  Club,  Musical  Clubs  (President-Manager),  Varsity 
track  for  one  year,  Francis  Wayland  Scholar,  Captain  ROTC, 
Athletic  Board.  He  earned  membership  in  both  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
and  Sigma  Xi,  while  his  social  fraternity  is  Delta  Phi.  With 
World  War  I  on,  he  was  a  1st  Sergeant  in  the  SATC  at  Brown 
and  had  orders  to  attend  Engineers  OTC  in  November,  1918 
when  the  Armistice  was  signed. 

Having  earned  his  Sc.M.  in  1919,  he  became  an  Inspector 
and  Engineer  with  the  Associated  Factory  Mutual  Fire  In- 
sLirance  Companies  for  two  years,  then  moved  on  to  similar 
work  wilh  the  What  Cheer  and  Hope  Mutual  Fire  Insurance 
Companies.  He  has  been  on  the  Brown  Faculty  since  1923. 
With  Prof.  W.  S.  Franklin  of  M.I.T.,  he  wrote  a  popular  text, 
"Engineering  Mechanics,"  in  1929,  his  major  publication.  In 
addition  to  his  teaching,  he  has  been  a  consultant  in  mechani- 
cal engineering  for  a  large  number  of  industrial  concerns  in 
Rhode  Island  and  elsewhere.  His  academic  promotions  were: 
to  Assistant  Professor  in  1926,  Associate  Professor  in  1934, 
and  full  Professor  in  1940. 

(CoiUinm'd  on  page  16) 


Steady  Progress 


THE  WEST 
QUADRANGLE 


550  undergraduates  will  make  their  home  next  fall 

in  this  newest  of  Brown's  housing  units. 

First  occupants  may  be  reunion  groups  in  June. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


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■ts,  from  the  north, 
ilwork  shows  location 
^all  which  eventually 
enclose  the  court, 
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EVEN  IN  SUB-ZERO  WEATHER,  bricklayers  could  work  inside 
the  novel  "plastic  wrapping."  The  covering,  believed  one 
of  the  largest  anywhere,  provided  a  steam-heated  corridor 
on  the  outside  of  the  Quadrangle.  View  is  from  the  southeast. 


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Pictures  are  by  George  Henderson  '38,  Brown  Photo  Lab. 


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BUILDING'S  height 
is  suggested  in 
this  view  up 
Charles  Field  St. 


MARCH    1957 


RECOLLECTION  AND  THE  RECORDS: 


Pioneers  in  College  Hockey 


COMMEMORATING 

THE  FIRST  GAME  OF  INTERCOLLEGIATE 

ICE  HOCKEY  PLAYED  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES 

HARVARD  vs  BROWN 

JANUARY  19,  1898  AT  FRANKLIN  PARK,  BOSTON 

PRESENTED  TO  HARVARD  COLLEGE 
BY  THE  BROWN  CLUB  OF  BOSTON 

FEBRUARY  7,  1957 


BRONZE,  however  handsome,  has  its  limitations.  The  plaque 
transcribed  above  fittingly  commemorates  a  great  event 
in  American  athletics,  but  no  one  would  suggest  that  it  tells  the 
whole  story.  The  complete  historian  must  speak  at  more  leisure 
and  more  length. 

The  plaque  was  presented,  as  it  says,  on  the  February  evening 
when  the  Brown  hockey  team  was  a  visitor  to  Harvard's  new 
Donald  C.  Watson  Rink  near  the  Stadium  on  Soldiers  Field. 
Thanks  to  the  initiative  of  the  Brown  University  Club  of  Boston, 
future  spectators  there  will  be  reminded  of  the  arrival  of  inter- 


collegiate hockey  on  the  United  States  scene.  The  bronze,  how- 
ever, can  do  little  more  than  suggest  how  history  came  to  be 
made  59  years  ago.  It  does  not  even  note  the  score  of  the  now- 
famous  game,  for  the  donors  had  the  grace  not  to  boast  of  their 
team's  6-0  triumph. 

Brown's  1898  Varsity  went  on  to  become  the  first  inter- 
collegiate champion  in  ice  hockey  in  this  country.  In  a  series 
in  New  York,  the  other  leading  teams,  Yale  and  Columbia,  also 
went  down  to  defeat.  (One  of  the  most  amazing  features  was 
that  Brown  went  through  the  whole  season  without  a  single 
substitute  available.)  Brown's  hockey  tradition,  subject  to  later 
interruptions  but  now  given  new  hope  with  plans  for  an  indoor 
ice  rink,  was  given  the  finest  of  foundations  in  that  pioneering 
year. 

This  is  the  time,  it  seems  to  us,  for  something  rather  thorough 
in  the  way  of  a  chronicle  of  hockey's  arrival  in  this  country. 
Material  in  the  Brown  Archives  is  considerable,  and  personal 
recollections  have  been  incorporated  from  the  two  Brown 
players  alive:  Horace  T.  Day  '01,  who  attended  the  ceremonies 
in  Boston  on  Feb.  7,  has  written  us  about  the  1898  season  from 
Scituate,  Mass.,  while  Dr.  Charles  O.  Cooke  '99  gave  us  a  lively 
interview  at  his  home  at  167  Power  St.,  Providence.  These  two 
Brown  players  combined  for  the  first  goal  in  intercollegiate 
hockey  in  this  country.  Day  scoring  on  a  pass  from  Cooke. 


AS   THE   ARTIST   saw   the   oc- 

tion  in  the  first  game  of  U.S. 

college  hockey. 


BROWN   .\LUMNI    MONTHLY 


BROWN  CLUB  President  F.  Hartwell  Swaffield  '37  presented  the  plaque  to  Harvard's  Tom  Bolles. 


It  was  appropriate  and  almost  inevitable  that  Brown  should 
be  one  of  the  first  to  play  hockey  in  this  country,  for  five 
Brunonians  had  helped  bring  the  game  across  the  Canadian 
boundary.  How  that  happened  was  described  six  years  ago  in 
this  magazine  by  Dr.  Alexander  Meiklejohn  '93,  one  of  the 
pioneer  group. 

It  all  began  when  some  Canadian  and  United  States  tennis 
players  were  together  for  a  tournament  at  Niagara  Falls  in  the 
summer  of  1 894.  On  one  sociable  occasion  off-court,  they  began 
talking  about  winter  sports  and  found  they  were  playing  differ- 
ent games  on  ice.  The  Yankee  version  was  "ice  polo,"  in  which 
Brown  had  been  conspicuously  successful.  "Come  on  up  and 
try  our  game,"  said  the  Canadians.  The  invitation  was  accepted 
that  winter. 

Ice  polo's  ancestor  may  have  been  field  hockey,  Irish  hurling, 
or  old-fashioned  street  shinny — we  don't  pretend  to  know.  It 
was  played  with  a  short  stick  (with  rounded  end)  and  a  rubber 
ball.  It  had  a  counterpart  on  roller  skates,  a  slam-bang  affair 
with  fast  attack  and  body  contact.  Professionals  played  the 
latter  game  in  New  England  rinks — indoors,  where  it  was  easier 
to  collect  tickets  from  the  large,  partisan  crowds.  But  ice  polo 
long  continued  popular,  and  among  its  stars  were  Curley  Oden 
'21  and  Sgt.  Walter  McCoy,  now  boss  of  Brown's  Campus 
Police.  The  latter  says  the  game  finally  folded  when  proper 
sticks  were  no  longer  made. 


Alexander  Meiklejohn  was  an  ardent  devotee  of  both  ice  and 
roller  polo.  Brown  had  teams  in  ice  polo  for  several  years  before 
the  momentous  trip  to  Canada,  and  Dr.  Meiklejohn  says,  "My 
memory  seems  to  tell  me  that  we  had  never  been  beaten.  I  do 
remember  very  vividly  a  game  against  Harvard — on  Spy  Pond, 
I  think — in  which  we  had  a  lot  of  fun  with  a  powerful  fellow 
who  caught  on  the  Harvard  baseball  team  and  was  tackle  in 
football.  I  don't  recall  his  name,  but  I  still  have  in  me  the  feel 
of  the  good  comradeship  of  the  talk  as  he  and  I,  carrying  our 
skates  and  sticks,  walked  back  toward  Cambridge  after  the 
game." 

A  Look  at  Both  Varieties 

The  invitation  of  1894-5  was  for  four  games  in  Montreal, 
Ottawa,  Kingston,  and  Toronto.  Each  engagement  was  to  be  a 
double-header,  with  sessions  of  Canadian  hockey  and  U.  S.  ice 
polo  bracketed.  The  apparent  organizer  was  George  Wright, 
who  had  been  one  of  the  early  professional  baseball  players  and 
later  started  the  Wright  and  Ditson  Company,  makers  and  dis- 
tributors of  athletic  equipment.  Meiklejohn  had  played  cricket 
as  a  youngster  against  Wright  when  the  latter  was  captain  of  the 
Longwood  Cricket  Club  and  met  him  later  when  Wright  was 
coaching  tennis  (as  an  amateur). 

The  team  of  U.  S.  collegians  included:  Byron  Watson  '97, 
William  A.  Jones  '96,  George  Matteson  '96,  and  Meiklejohn 
from  Brown;  Malcolm  Chace  '96,  who  had  transferred  to  Yale, 
and  another  Yale  man,  A.  C.  Foote;  F.  H.  Clarkson  of  Harvard; 


MARCH    1957 


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AFTER  BEATING  HARVARD,  they  went  on  to  become  the  first  intercollegiate 
hockey    champions;    left    to    right— Steere,    Bucklin,    Peveor,    Hunt,    Barrows, 


Cooke  and  Day.  The  lost  two,  who  teamed  to  score  the  first  goal,  contribute 
their  recollections  to  this  story. 


and  Billy  Lamed  of  Columbia.  Wright  went  along  as  a  kind  of 
manager,  while  the  Associated  Press  assigned  C.  M.  Pope  to 
cover  the  expedition.  Five  of  the  men  played  when  it  was  polo, 
and  seven  when  it  was  hockey. 

Meiklejohn's  description  continued:  "Each  evening  we  played 
two  periods  of  polo  and  hockey  before  capacity  crowds.  The 
Canadians  beat  us  easily  at  hockey,  four  straight  games,  if  1 
remember  rightly.  Their  game  was  much  more  highly  developed 
than  ours,  as  shown  by  their  having  a  league  with  regular 
schedules  and  big  buildings,  which  held  large  crowds  of  spec- 
tators. 

"They  had  a  couple  of  other  advantages  as  well  as  greater 
skill:  First,  they  had  flat-bladcd  speed  skates  as  against  our 
'rockers,'  which  we  had  always  used.  Moreover,  our  hitting 
stroke  with  one  hand  would  not  move  a  flat  puck  along  the  ice. 
We  were  accustomed  to  play  with  a  ball,  not  a  puck.  Their 
pushing  stroke  with  both  hands  was  effective  in  moving  the  polo 
ball,  as  well  as  in  hockey.  Nevertheless,  we  managed  to  win  two 
games  of  polo  and  to  tie  the  two  others.  (Billy  .lones,  who  gave 
to  the  Brown  Archives  the  photo  of  the  U.  S.  squad,  said  at  the 
time  of  his  50th  reunion:  "We  broke  even  on  the  series,  each 
winning  the  game  with  which  we  were  familiar."  That  seems  to 
be  the  more  generally  accepted  version.) 

We  Liked  Their  Game  Better 

"The  crowds  were  not  only  big  but  very  friendly  and  much 
interested,"  Meiklejohn  continued.  "I  remember  with  pleasure 


seeing  my  Brown  classmate,  Leonard  Therrien,  a  Canadian,  as 
he  yelled  at  me  from  a  seat  near  the  ice. 

"It  was  pretty  generally  agreed  among  us,  as  a  result  of  the 
trip,  that  the  Canadian  game  was  better  than  ours.  Having 
learned  the  rudiments  of  play,  we  brought  back  with  us  the  flat 
skates  and  pucks  and  sticks  and  proceeded  to  try  to  forget  old 
habits  and  take  on  new  ones.  The  AP  man,  on  our  return,  raised 
money  for  the  building  of  the  old  St.  Nicholas  Ice  Rink  in  New 
York,  which  became  a  hockey  center.  Malcolm  Chace,  who  was 
our  Captain,  played  a  lot  there  and  developed,  with  his  speed,  a 
lot  of  skill. 

"The  following  year,  I  went  to  Cornell  as  a  graduate  student. 
We  organized  there  a  hockey  team,  on  which,  on  the  strength 
of  the  Canadian  trip,  I'm  sure,  I  was  made  Captain.  In  two  years 
we  played  only  one  game  (at  St.  Nick's)  and  lost  it.  Unlike 
Malcolm,  t  never  really  learned  the  new  game  and  so  always 
lamented  the  loss  of  the  old. 

"Nevertheless,  my  interest  in  hockey  was  so  keen  that,  as 
soon  as  my  three  boys  could  stand  on  their  feet  securely,  I  got 
them  on  skates  and  tried  to  teach  them  the  game.  Perhaps  I  had 
better  luck  there  than  in  teaching  philosophy,  which,  as  some 
readers  will  remember,  I  also  tried  to  do.  Two  of  the  boys  were 
Captains  of  their  college  teams  tone  at  McGill),  and  one  of 
them  was  twice  chosen  to  play  on  the  United  States  team  at  the 
Olympics.  But  I  am  getting  off  the  subject,  which  is  safer  in 
philosophy,  perhaps,  than  in  hockey." 

At  Brown,  the  enthusiasm  for  the  Canadian  game  continued. 


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and  new  students  took  it  up.  They  played  the  game  informally 
on  various  ponds — most  of  the  time  over  in  East  Providence  at 
Railroad  Pond  (about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  north  of  Red  Bridge), 
sometimes  at  Roger  Williams  Pond,  occasionally  in  the  old  Cat 
Swamp,  the  site  of  today's  Aldrich  Field. 

There  were  not  many  rules.  There  were  no  zones — you 
could  pass  anywhere,  as  long  as  the  other  player  was  skating 
even  with  you.  A  man  was  ruled  offside  if  at  any  point  he  was 
ahead  of  the  puck  when  a  teammate  was  carrying  it  or  shooting. 
You  could  not  loaf  offside.  Touching  the  puck  when  you  were 
offside  constituted  a  foul  and  called  for  a  face-off  on  the  spot. 
If  the  infraction  occurred  right  in  front  of  a  goal,  the  face-off 
took  place  15  feet  out  and  10  feet  to  one  side. 

The  ice  surface  for  hockey  was  determined  usually  by  the 
area  of  the  pond,  sometimes  five  or  six  times  that  of  the  modern 
rinks.  Players  kept  fighting  for  the  puck  even  far  from  the  goal, 
for  it  was  seldom  that  flags  marked  a  boundary.  There  was  many 
a  time-out  while  the  men  searched  for  the  puck  in  the  weeds 
along  the  edge  of  a  pond  or  tried  to  fish  it  out  of  a  hole  in  the 
ice.  Smooth  ice  was  never  guaranteed,  and  conditions  would 
change  by  the  hour  with  the  weather.  Sometimes  there  would 
be  patches  of  water  on  the  ice  to  give  you  a  drenching  during  a 
skirmish.  You  had  to  keep  an  eye  on  pranksters,  too;  they  might 
steal  clothes  or  shoes.  Coats  or  shoes  or  rocks  from  the  shore 
might  mark  the  goals.  But  it  was  a  great  game,  as  they  all  soon 
learned. 

A  "Brilliant"  Debut  for  Brown 

No  one  seems  to  know  how  the  first  intercollegiate  contest 
came  to  be  arranged,  but  it  was  inevitable  that  teams  would  be 
formed  and  look  around  for  opponents.  At  any  rate,  the  out- 
come of  the  negotiations  was  that  Brown  should  send  its  team 
to  Boston.  Seven  dollars  in  expense  money  came  down  from 
Cambridge  to  help  finance  the  invasion. 

If  the  players  realized  that  they  were  making  athletic  history, 
the  press  did  not.  As  the  reporter  for  the  Boston  Herald  wrote 
his  account  of  the  game  for  the  paper  of  Jan.  20,  1898,  there  is 
no  suggestion  that  he  realized  this  was  the  first  of  its  kind  in 
the  United  States.  Yet,  one  would  almost  suppose  he  had  con- 
siderable familiarity  with  hockey  as  he  made  his  commentary 
on  the  technique  as  well  as  the  action.  He  recognized  it  as  a 
debut  for  Harvard,  and  a  "poor"  one.  Without  noting  that  it 
was  Brown's  first  game,  too,  he  credited  its  team  with  playing 
"brilliantly."  Here  is  his  story: 

"Harvard  drew  a  blank  in  her  first  intercollegiate  game  of 
hockey  with  Brown  University  at  Franklin  Field  yesterday  after- 
noon. This  is  Harvard's  first  season  at  the  favorite  Canadian 
pastime,  and  the  exhibition  given  by  her  team  shows  that  it 
still  has  a  great  deal  to  learn.  Brown  cracked  out  six  goals  and 
prevented  Harvard  from  scoring.  The  Providence  collegians 
had  speed,  they  supported  one  another  finely,  and  the  passing 
of  the  forwards  was  clean-cut  and  accurate. 

"Two  members  of  the  Brown  team,  Pevear  and  Capt.  Hunt, 
are  well-known  football  players.  Hunt  played  right  end  on  the 
Brown  Varsity  last  fall,  and  Pevear  was  substitute  tackle.  The 
forwards  were  very  aggressive,  and  Pevear  and  Hunt  did  some 
very  effective  work  in  blocking  off.  Day  and  Cooke  also  came 
in  for  their  share  of  the  glory;  the  latter  snapped  three  goals  in 
the  second  period.  The  most  sensational  play  of  the  game  was 
from  the  center  of  the  field  by  Capt.  Hunt,  who  sent  the  puck 
skimming  through  the  air  with  a  pretty  lift.  Bucklin,  Steere,  and 
Barrows,  who  were  in  the  back  field,  had  very  little  to  do,  as 
little  of  the  play  went  their  way. 

An  Aplnecialion  of  Passing 

"Of  the  Harvard  players,  Capt.  Goodridge  and  Russell,  the 
goal  tend,  made  a  very  creditable  showing,  but  the  remainder 
of  the  crimson  men  were  erratic  and  fell  all  over  one  another. 
They  were  too  closely  bunched,  and  in  their  eagerness  to  get 
at  the  ball  did  not  appreciate  the  importance  of  keeping  spread 


out  so  that  they  could  indulge  in  passing,  which  is  the  chief 
feature  of  the  Canadian  game. 

"As  the  ball  was  in  scrimmage  almost  all  the  while,  with  the 
Harvard  players  bunched,  Brown  frequently  secured  opportuni- 
ties for  a  run  to  goal  by  clear  team  work  when  the  puck  was 
knocked  out  of  the  crowd.  Russell  put  up  a  strong  defence  at 
goal  for  Harvard,  and  if  it  were  not  for  his  good  eye  and  sharp 
stick  work  Brown's  score  would  have  been  twice  as  large. 

"Harvard  started  off  with  a  rush  that  carried  the  Brown  men 
off  their  feet,  but  after  some  five  minutes'  play  Brown  settled 
down  and  commenced  to  pass  beautifully.  The  first  goal  was 
made  in  7m.  30s.  on  a  pretty  pass  by  Cooke  to  Day,  who  snapped 
the  puck  home.  Pevear  made  the  second  goal,  on  an  individual 
rush,  taking  the  puck  from  about  midfield  and  working  his  way 
through  the  bunch  until  he  secured  a  favorable  opportunity  to 
make  the  score.  This  ended  the  scoring  for  the  first  half. 

"In  the  second  half  there  were  several  changes  in  the  Harvard 
line-up,  but  the  playing  of  the  team  did  not  improve.  The 
Harvard  men  seemed  to  forget  that  they  were  playing  hockey, 
and  acted  more  like  ice-polo  players.  This  was  especially  notice- 
able from  the  manner  in  which  they  handled  their  sticks.  In- 
stead of  keeping  their  clubs  close  to  the  ice,  they  held  them  up 
in  the  air,  and  thereby  missed  quick  opportunities  for  con- 
necting with  the  puck.  The  play  was  almost  entirely  in  Harvard's 
territory,  and  the  first  two  goals  were  made  by  Cooke  in  four 
minutes. 

"Just  before  Brown  scored  her  final  goal,  Capt.  Goodridge  of 
Harvard  made  a  desperate  bid  for  a  goal.  He  picked  up  the  puck 
near  his  own  goal,  and  went  through  his  field  by  clever  dodging. 
Pevear  tackled  him,  but  Goodridge  slid  past,  and,  after  safely 
eluding  Hunt,  he  snapped  the  ball  to  one  side  to  Beardsell.  The 
latter  connected  all  right  and  made  a  pretty  shot  for  goal,  but 
missed  by  a  very  narrow  margin." 

The  line-ups:  Brown — Pevear,  Hunt,  Cooke,  and  Day,  for- 
wards; Bucklin,  cover-point;  Steere,  point;  Barrows,  goal. 
Harvard — Goodridge,  Beardsell,  Matteson,  Stevens,  and  Hardy, 
forwards;  Hoxie  and  Clement,  cover-point;  Stevens  and  Hoxie, 
point;  Russell,  goal.  The  scoring  was  given  thus:  1st  period — 
Day  7:30;  Pevear  9:00.  2nd  period — Cooke  2:30,  1 :30;  Hunt 
8:00;  Cooke  10:00.  Time:  20-minute  periods.  (Apparently  the 
times  given  for  the  goals  represented  the  interval  between  scores, 
which  would  account  for  Cooke's  second  goal  being  listed  as 
"1:30.")  Referee — Mr.  F.  Holt.  Umpires — Messrs.  Wheeler 
and  Clement.  Timer — Mr.  McNamara. 

The  Men  Who  Played 

Two  of  the  Brown  players  survive  and  three  of  the  Harvard- 
ians.  Day,  whose  great-nephew  is  a  member  of  the  current 
Brown  Varsity,  attended  the  Brown  dinner  on  Feb.  7  and  at- 
tended the  ceremonies  in  the  Harvard  rink.  He  was  associated 
for  most  of  his  business  life  with  the  Factory  Mutual  Fire 
Insurance  Company  as  an  appraiser  of  manufacturing  plants. 
Now  retired,  he  lives  on  Bassin  Lane,  Scituate,  Mass.  Cooke, 
retired  after  an  active  and  useful  life  as  a  surgeon,  is  living  in 
Providence  at  1 67  Power  St.  Since  his  locomotion  is  not  as  good 
as  it  was  in  his  hockey  or  tennis  days,  he  was  unable  to  go  to 
Boston  for  the  reunion,  but  he  contributed  some  lively  recollec- 
tions when  we  talked  with  him  at  home.  He  sent  his  greetings 
to  Boston. 

Dr.  Albert  A.  Barrows  '98  became  a  distinguished  surgeon 
in  Providence  after  getting  his  M.D.  from  Harvard.  He  was  a 
Fellow  of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons  and  served  on  the 
staffs  of  several  Rhode  Island  hospitals  as  a  consulting  surgeon. 
He  had  duty  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Navy's  Medical  Corps  in 
World  War  I. 

Harris  H.  Bucklin  '00  became  prominent  in  textiles  in  New 
England  as  an  officer  and  executive  of  the  Interlaken  Mills  and 
the  Arkwright  Finishing  Co.  His  most  conspicuous  civic  service 
was  as  President  of  the  Rhode  Island  Hospital  in  Providence, 


MARCH    1957 


leading  its  drive  for  the  new  building. 

Irving  O.  Hunt  '99,  Captain  and  Manager,  was  a  Providence 
lawyer  for  some  time  (Harvard  was  his  law  school)  and  then 
moved  to  Wyoming,  Pa.,  where  he  was  a  gentleman  farmer. 
One  of  Brown's  greatest  athletes,  he  was  a  frequent  visitor  in 
Providence;  his  brother  is  S.  Foster  Hunt  '04.  Both  attended 
a  Brown  hockey  reunion  in  1948. 

Jesse  S.  Pevear  '99  became  a  railroad  man:  railway  engineer. 
General  Electric  Co.:  General  Superintendent,  Twin  City  Rapid 
Transit  Co.;  Vice-President  and  General  Manager,  Buffalo  and 
Lake  Erie  Traction  Co.:  Vice-President,  International  Railway 
Co.  His  last  post  was  as  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  the  Birming- 
ham Electric  Co.  in  Alabama.  He  was  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  student. 

Robert  W.  Steere  '01  was  a  New  York  cotton  broker  until 
his  death  in  1927.  He  was  a  resident  of  Providence  for  many 
years  prior  to  going  to  New  York.  The  group  is  one  of  which 
hockey  may  be  well  proud. 

Dr.  Cooke  verifies  our  suspicion  that  the  Matteson  in  the 
Harvard  line-up  was  George  A.  Matteson,  Brown  '96,  then  a 
graduate  student  at  Harvard  Medical  School,  who  had  made  the 
famous  Canadian  trip  in  the  winter  of  1894-5.  Cooke  recalls 
that  Barrows  also  played  for  Harvard  later  while  a  medical 
student  there.  Cooke  himself  accepted  other  colors  when  he 
took  his  medical  studies,  playing  for  the  Yale  Freshmen  against 
the  Harvard  Freshmen  in  Boston.  "Things  were  pretty  flexible 
then,"  he  remarks.  Living  members  of  the  Harvard  team  are 
Frederick  Adams  Russell  '99  of  Boston,  William  L.  Beardsell 
'00  of  Belmont,  Mass.,  and  Roger  S.  Hardy  '01  of  Litchfield. 
Conn. 

"We  Don't  Need  Any  Subs" 

Franklin  Field,  where  the  first  game  with  Harvard  was  played, 
was  in  Dorchester,  Mass.  Because  of  the  crowd.  Day  says,  there 
was  only  a  narrow  strip  of  ice  available.  The  surface  was  other- 
wise open,  with  no  boards  or  rink.  There  were  sticks  or  posts 
for  the  goals  in  this  game,  Cooke  recalls.  It  was  not  until  they 
played  in  rinks  that  anything  like  the  modern  cage  was  used. 

The  first  Brown  squad  consisted  of  one  full  team  and  no  more. 
Day  recalls,  although  the  Liber  shows  that  there  were  two  spares 
in  the  second  season.  When  the  players  arrived  for  the  first  game 
with  Harvard,  the  Crimson  Captain  asked  where  our  substitutes 
were.  Captain  Hunt  replied,  "We  don't  need  one."  Day  adds, 
"Brown  confidence  stimulated  us  to  the  tune  of  6  to  0." 

Of  course,  the  iron-man  tradition  applied  to  most  sports  of 
the  day,  including  football.  But  another  explanation  lay  in  the 
fact  that  body  contact  was  at  a  minimum.  But  hockey  was 
already  on  its  way  to  being  a  rugged  contact  sport.  The 
Brunonian  says  of  one  Yale  game:  "It  was  somewhat  amusing 
that  a  few  philistine  reporters  should  have  called  it  a  'rough 
game  on  both  sides,'  saying  that  'sometimes  they  even  called  to 
take  the  man  instead  of  the  puck.'  They  do  not  seem  to  know 
that  at  certain  times  the  proper  play  is  to  block  a  man  in  order 
to  get  the  puck.  We  do  not,  as  a  rule,  say  a  proper  and  legitimate 
play  is  rough,  but  only  those  in  which  unnecessary  and  un- 
gentlemanly  force  is  used." 

Dr.  Cooke,  whose  nose  still  shows  where  a  stick  walloped  it, 
says  body  checks  were  allowed  and  thrown.  One  Brown  man 
was  checked  so  hard  in  a  Yale  game  that  he  was  thrown  over 
the  boards  off  the  ice  at  the  Brooklyn  rink,  but  there  was  no 
penalty.  There  was  no  "penalty  box"  nor  sidelining  of  a  player 
for  a  foul.  The  referee  merely  blew  his  whistle  and  called  for 
a  face-off.  (Was  there  a  free  shot  at  the  goalie,  as  in  polo?)  Still, 
"intentional  roughness  was  about  nil,"  Day  remembers.  "In 
spite  of  my  133  pounds,  1  fell  only  twice  all  season.  Once  was 
when  a  Yale  man  tripped  me,  and  the  other  time  was  when  I 
was  standing  still:  both  feet  went  out  from  under  me  due  to 
exhaustion.  Captain  Hunt  made  me  keep  my  position  (left 
wing),  and  the  whole  half  of  the  game  was  played  on  the  other 
side  of  the  rink,  to  lake  advantage  of  our  heavier  wing-man 
there." 


The  Missing  Trophy 

The  games  in  Brooklyn  were  stimulated  by  the  offer  of  an 
intercollegiate  trophy  by  a  Mr.  Ireland  of  the  Skating  Club  of 
Brooklyn.  The  competitors  were  Brown,  Columbia,  and  Yale. 
(Penn  and  Princeton  were  not  listed,  although  Dr.  Cooke  says 
they  organized  teams  about  that  time.) 

Of  the  tournament,  lasting  over  several  weeks.  Collier's 
Weekly  said:  "Although  Brown's  skaters  had  previously  de- 
voted themselves  entirely  to  ice  polo,  they  nevertheless  plunged 
into  the  new  game  with  snap  so  characteristic  of  that  university 
and  actually  won  the  series  without  losing  a  game,  the  scores 
against  Yale  being  1-0,  0-0,  and  2-1.  Against  Columbia  her 
victories  were  decisive,  and  Yale  secured  second  place  by  also 
beating  Columbia,  4-0  and  4-1." 

In  a  Providence  Evening  Bulletin  article  in  1937,  the  late 
Joseph  W.  Nutter  24  wrote:  "For  reasons  that  have  long  since 
been  lost  to  the  memory  of  those  who  played  in  the  period,  the 
Ireland  trophy  was  never  presented  to  Brown.  That  item  would 
be  an  interesting  turn  for  some  one  bent  on  searching  out  lost 
treasures." 

The  pages  of  The  Brunonian  throw  some  light  on  the  hockey 
season  of  1898,  with  almost  weekly  references.  Although  es- 
sentially a  literary  magazine,  it  had  reports  on  "The  Week"  as 
well  as  regular  personal  items  about  the  alumni,  much  like  our 
Class  Notes  of  today.  The  first  notice  indicated  practice  through 
the  Christmas  holiday,  "so  that  in  spite  of  difficulties  and  dis- 
advantages we  may  hope  to  be  well  represented  in  that  line." 
The  publication,  for  some  reason,  used  quotation  marks  when 
speaking  of  the  "Hockey  Team." 

Later,  The  Brunonian  said:  "In  the  interval  between  the  foot- 
ball and  baseball  seasons,  the  hockey  and  bowling  teams  are 
attracting  attention.  These  teams  are  without  financial  assistance 
and  even  without  recognition  from  the  athletic  association. 
They  are  doing  excellent  work  and  deserve  general  encourage- 
ment and  support." 

Instead  of  a  mere  paragraph,  the  team  got  a  whole  column's 
report  on  Feb.  5 :  "This  time  we  desire  to  give  it  special  honor- 
able mention.  The  double  victory  of  having  won  from  both 
Harvard  and  Yale  gives  the  team  at  once,  a  splendid  standing. 
The  game  last  Saturday  with  Yale  (resulting  in  the  score.  Brown 
1;  Yale  0),  was  a  hard  one  well  fought.  The  puck  continually 
oscillated  between  the  two  goals,  keeping  the  activity  and  alert- 
ness of  the  players  at  high  tension,  and  the  interest  of  the  spec- 
tators sustained.  Many  times  the  watchers  rose  to  their  feet  with 
that  little  breathless  gasp  or  that  suppressed  murmur  that  de- 
notes intense  interest.  And  the  applause  was  hearty  when  the 
only  goal  of  the  evening  was  made,  within  three  minutes  of  the 
end  of  the  game. 

"Several  times  Yale  seriously  threatened  Brown's  goal,  having 
a  clear  field  for  a  shoot  (sic),  and  on  these  occasions  was  pre- 
vented from  scoring,  only  by  the  excellent  work  of  Barrows  at 
goal.  All  of  the  men  played  well  and  collectively  showed  good 
team  work." 

What  Passed  for  Uniforms 

The  first  uniforms  were  makeshift.  Dr.  Cooke  recalls.  The 
Brown  players  wore  baseball  trousers  and  turtle-neck  sweaters 
of  the  sort  then  in  collegiate  vogue.  Over  heavy  stockings,  they 
wore  the  leg  guards  adopted  from  ice  polo;  the  goalie's  pads 
were  no  different  from  the  others'.  Yale's  team  was  notable  for 
wearing  gauntlet-style  gloves  specially  designed  for  hockey,  but 
the  others  merely  wore  heavy  wool  or  leather  gloves. 

"We  bought  our  own  skates,"  Day  points  out.  "They  were  of 
the  clamp  variety,  which  you  attached  to  ordinary  shoes  either 
with  a  little  lever  to  make  them  take  hold  or  with  a  key  that 
screwed  them  on.  Occasionally  they  worked  loose.  They  cost 
about  six  dollars."  Dr.  Cooke  believes  that  shoe-skate  com- 
binations came  in  while  he  was  still  at  Brown.  (He  was  Captain 
of  the  1900  team,  while  studying  for  his  graduate  degree  on  the 
Hill.) 


10 


BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


---s-- 


THESE  "ALL-AMERICANS,"  including  four  Bru- 
nonians  took  ice  polo  to  Canada  in  1895  and 
brought  back  hockey.  Top  row,  left  to  right: 
Pope,  Clorkson,  Jones,  Wright;  middle  row: 
Matteson,  Chace,  Foote;  bottom  row:  Meikle- 
john  and  Lamed.   (Photo  from   Brown  Archives.) 


One  remarkable  feature  was  that  a  man's  hockey  stick  lasted 
him  all  season,  contrasted  with  the  normal  breakage  in  one  of 
today's  games.  Both  Cooke  and  Day  used  only  one  stick  apiece 
in  all  their  college  games.  They  cost  from  60^  to  a  dollar.  "When 
mine  became  worn,"  Day  writes,  "I  had  a  piece  of  hard  wood 
riveted  to  it  to  restore  the  original  width.  When  playing,  I  could 
hear  the  rivets  digging  into  the  ice,  but  the  stick  held  up." 

Although  there  was  plenty  of  ice  in  the  winter  of  '98,  the  team 
had  its  troubles.  While  Columbia  had  been  able  to  use  the  New 
York  rinks  and  play  a  few  games  before  its  encounter  with 
Brown,  The  Bntnonian  said:  "The  Brown  team  has  had  no 
practice  since  the  heavy  snow-fall."  Between  that  game  and  the 
second  Yale  game.  Brown  again  was  unable  to  practice,  perhaps 
explaining  its  failure  to  score  in  the  tie  game.  But  1900  brought 
the  worst  problems.  That  year  a  rink  was  built  on  Lincoln  Field 
on  the  old  Back  Campus,  but  there  was  ice  for  only  one  game. 
Dr.  Cooke  says. 

Odds  and  Ends:  Although  the  modern  game  calls  for  teams 
of  six  on  the  ice  at  one  time,  the  original  line-up  included  seven. 
There  were  four  forwards — two  wings  and  two  centers.  Of  the 
defense  men,  the  point  played  about  halfway  between  the  op- 
posing goals,  where  he  could  either  defend  or  attack  according 
to  the  situation.  The  cover  point  was  normally  posted  about  10 
feet  in  front  of  the  Brown  goal.  Phipp  Barrows,  Day  says,  was 
an  unusually  fine  goalie,  although  he  had  little  to  do  in  the  first 
game. 

The  Brown  players  were  wholly  self-coached,  except  that 
Dean  Meiklejohn  joined  them  for  a  half-hour  one  day.  "He  was 
a  good  skater,"  Day  says,  "but  considered  the  game  too  rough 
for  him." 

William  Jones  suggested  in  a  letter  in  1946  that  the  colleges 
were  not  the  hockey  pioneers  in  this  country,  for  the  game  was 
known  informally  at  St.  Paul's  School  in  Concord,  N.  H.  But 
it  was  not  played  anywhere  else,  Jones  said.  He  recalled  the 
building  of  the  original  St.  Nicholas  Rink  in  New  York  at  West 
66th  St.  near  Columbus  Ave.:  Some  millionaires  raised  $300,- 
000  in  a  few  days'  time  in  order  to  launch  the  sport  there.  He 
played  for  the  St.  Nick's  for  several  seasons  after  graduation. 
He  was  quite  an  athlete,  competing  in  national  tennis  tourna- 
ments as  well. 

Brown  did  meet  defeat  in  that  first  season,  but  not  from  a 
college  team.  Day  says:  "Our  last  game  was  played  at  the  St. 
Nicholas  Rink  in  New  York  City  against  the  New  York  City 


Club.  They  were  the  professional  champions  of  all  North 
America,  including  Canada.  Our  individual  style  of  play  was  no 
match  for  their  clever  passing  and  experience.  During  the  first 
six  or  eight  minutes,  I  was  sick  and  no  help  to  our  team  but  had 
to  stay  in  for  we  still  had  no  subs.  They  scored  six  goals  during 
that  part  of  the  game  but  only  three  later,  in  shutting  us  out  9-0." 

The  "H  Book"  of  Harvard  Athletics  comments  on  this  period 
as  follows:  "Brown  University  was  our  greatest  competitor  in 
the  early  games  of  polo  and  hockey.  In  February,  1896,  Harvard 
won  from  Brown  in  ice  polo  on  Spy  Pond,  Arlington,  by  a  score 
of  5  to  4,  and  the  following  year  the  Harvard  team  went  to 
Providence  and  defeated  Brown  5  to  0  in  Roger  Williams  Park. 
In  each  of  the  years  1898  and  1899,  Harvard  lost  the  Brown 
games,  0  to  6  and  1  to  2,  respectively,  these  games  being  hockey, 
not  polo.  By  this  time  hockey  was  well  established,  and  on  Feb. 
26,  1900,  Harvard  played  its  first  game  with  Yale  in  the  St. 
Nicholas  Rink,  New  York,  which  Yale  won  5  to  4." 

Dr.  Cooke's  undergraduate  diary  shows  typical  expenses  for 
the  trip  to  New  York:  $7.50  round  trip  on  the  train,  $1.50  for 
a  berth  or  $1.00  for  a  room;  dinner  55<f,  breakfast  35(',  lunch 
10<?.  They  would  take  the  11:18  train  to  New  York,  trolley  over 
to  Brooklyn  to  Clermont  Ave.,  eat  a  big  dinner,  and  go  on  the 
ice  almost  immediately  afterward.  (A  modern  trainer  would 
throw  up  his  hands  in  horror  at  the  thought.  No  wonder  Day 
recalls  being  ill  in  the  last  game.)  The  rinks  paid  the  expenses 
for  the  New  York  trips,  while  Harvard  provided  a  dollar  a  man 
for  train  fare  to  Boston  for  the  first  game.  Even  so,  it  was  close 
figuring,  and  one  diary  entry  notes  that  Cooke  came  home  from 
New  York  once  with  Hi  left. 

His  diary  speaks  of  a  visit  to  New  York  in  November,  1899, 
to  represent  Brown  at  a  meeting  which  drew  up  some  rules  for 
intercollegiate  hockey  and  made  the  schedules  for  the  winter. 
"Went  to  see  John  Drew  at  a  matinee,"  he  adds. 

Although  the  newspaper  account  indicates  that  Day  was  the 
first  to  score  against  Harvard  and  so  the  first  in  American  inter- 
collegiate play,  he  remembers,  rather,  the  goal  which  broke  the 
scoreless  tie  in  the  first  Yale  game:  "I  would  have  said  this  was 
the  only  goal  I  scored  all  season.  At  any  rate,  it  was  a  big  one. 
The  whole  Yale  team  was  jammed  around  its  goal,  and  one  of 
our  players  flipped  the  puck  out  from  in  back  of  it.  Although  I 
was  waiting  out  in  front  for  a  pass,  1  let  the  puck  get  by  me.  I 
swung  my  stick  around  behind  me,  like  a  horse  swishing  its  tail 
at  a  fly.  By  good  luck,  1  connected,  knocking  the  puck  through 
the  mass  of  players  and  into  the  net." 


MARCH    1957 


11 


MARCUS  AURELIUS  faces  east. 


MEMORIAL  ARCH,  World  War  I. 


Snowfall 
on  the  Hill 

A  Winter  Portfolio 

Robert  W.  Watson  '58, 

Brown  Camera  Club 


BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


VAN  WICKLE  GATES, 
atop  College  Hill. 


SAYLES  HALL  and  Wilson. 


13 


My  5  Years 
in  the  Quad 

Or  How  I  Got  Ahead 
of  President  Keeney 


By  DOUGLAS  A.  SNOW  '45 

Resident  Fellow 


It's  a  pleasure  to  welcome  back  to  the  pages  of  the  Brown 
Alumni  Monthly  its  former  Assistant  Editor.  This  time  it  is  in 
his  role  as  one  of  the  14  Resident  Fellows  in  the  Wriston 
Quadrangle.  He  appraises  this  fiiTiction  and  tells  some  of  his 
adventures  on  the  basis  of  five  years'  experience  in  Buxton 
House.  Much  of  his  story  he  told  to  the  Boston  Brown  Club  at 
a  luncheon  this  winter.  Snmv's  major  responsibilities  on  College 
Hill  are  as  Manager  of  the  University  Store,  where  he  is  as 
popular  and  effective  as  in  his  dormitory— and  that  is  no  faint 
praise. 


SPIKE  Coles  was  the  one  who  told  me  what  it  was  all  about. 
He  was  Dean  of  the  College  when  the  Resident  Fellow 
System  was  inaugurated  at  Brown.  (Dr.  Coles,  as  you  probably 
know,  is  now  President  of  Bowdoin  College — our  Deans  have  a 
habit  of  becoming  College  Presidents  it  seems.)  Anyway,  when 
I  received  my  appointment  as  Resident  Fellow  in  Buxton  House 
in  February,  1952,  the  Dean  said  to  me: 

"You  will  reside  in  the  Quadrangle  in  a  room  that  will  be 
furnished  rent-free.  You  are  entitled  to  one  free  meal  a  day  to 
be  eaten  with  the  students  in  the  Refectory.  You  have  an  annual 
expense  account  of  $100.  You  will  do  whatever  you  think  nec- 
essary to  give  the  students  the  benefit  of  your  presence  in  the 
dormitory.  Do  you  have  any  questions?" 

I  had  no  questions.  I  had  come  to  the  Dean's  Office  pre- 
pared to  take  notes  on  my  new  duties,  and  I  felt  a  little  let- 
down by  the  vagueness  of  the  instructions  I  received.  I  thought 
— and  I  still  think — that  the  University  (meaning,  in  those  days, 
Mr.  Wriston)  was  not  itself  sure  what  it  wanted  the  Resident 
Fellows  to  do  or  what  it  expected  the  system  to  develop  into. 
Now,  that  I  have  the  perspective  of  a  five-year  practitioner, 
though,  I  can  say  sincerely  that  I  think  Spike  knew  what  he 
wasn't  talking  about.  "Giving  the  students  the  benefit  of  your 
presence  in  the  dormitory"  is  the  essence  of  the  Resident  Fellow 
program  as  I  see  it. 

The  Resident  Fellow  program  at  Brown  is  as  varied  from 
House  to  House  and  from  year  to  year  as  the  personalities  and 
backgrounds  of  the  Fellows  themselves.  They  are  of  all  ages, 
they  come  from  all  over  the  world,  and  they  represent  all  fields 
of  academic  endeavor.  I  am  only  one  of  16  full-time  Resident 
Fellows  on  the  campus  this  year.  Please  keep  this  fact  in  mind 
as  you  read,  fully  aware  that  only  about  20%  of  what  I  say 
pertains  to  the  program  in  general;  the  other  80%  is  personal 
opinion  based  on  personal  experience. 


These  Things  He's  Not 

From  a  definitive  point  of  view,  it  is  easier  to  tell  you  what 
a  Resident  Fellow  isn't  than  to  tell  you  what  he  is:  A  Resident 
Fellow  is  not  a  spy  for  the  administration.  He  is  not  a  warden 
for  the  dormitory.  He  is  not  an  amateur  psychiatrist.  He  is  not 
a  house-father  in  the  sense  that  Pembroke  has  house-mothers  to 
see  that  the  girls  conform  to  the  parietal  rules.  The  Resident 
Fellow  is,  basically,  a  representative  of  the  Faculty.  As  such,  he 
is  expected  to  carry  over  from  the  classroom  into  the  dormitory 
some  of  the  atmosphere  of  intellectual  maturity. 

The  academic,  the  athletic,  the  social  sides  of  campus  life  all 
contribute  to  the  education  of  the  whole  man  in  this  period  of 
a  student's  intensive  living.  And  the  classroom  is  not  the  only 
place  where  guidance  in  the  educating  process  is  called  for.  The 
Coaches  provide  guidance  at  the  gym  and  on  the  field;  the 
Resident  Fellows  provide  guidance  in  the  living  quarters. 

The  Resident  Fellow  makes  himself  available  to  the  students 
whenever  they  feel  the  need  of  contact — for  whatever  reason — 
with  an  older  person.  The  need  can  arise  at  any  time  of  the  week, 
day  or  night;  it  is  not  confined  to  classroom  or  Dean's  office 
hours.  And  the  need  can  run  from  borrowing  shoe  polish  to  get 
ready  for  an  ROTC  inspection  to  advice  on  how  to  talk  to  an 
Instructor  who  is  "unfair";  from  what  to  do  when  Dad  has  said 
that  he  won't  send  any  more  allowance  to  help  in  composing  a 
letter  applying  for  a  summer  job;  from  information  about  the 
infirmary  to  advice  on  etiquette.  The  significant  fact  is  students 
are  making  use  of  the  Resident  Fellows. 

The  Dean  of  the  College  appoints  all  Fellows.  They  may  be 
of  any  graduate  rank  and  work  in  any  division  of  the  University. 
Only  three — Bruce  Hutchinson  and  Deene  Clark  of  the  Admis- 
sion Office  and  I — are  members  of  the  Administration  currently 
active  as  Resident  Fellows.*  Bruce  and  I  are  charter  members, 
having  started  when  the  Quadrangle  opened. 

Right  Over  the  Arch 

The  Chief  Resident  Fellow  lives  with  his  wife  in  a  very  com- 
fortable apartment  over  Wayland  House  Arch.  He  handles  ar- 
rangements for  the  weekly  luncheons  which  are  sponsored  by 
the  group  as  a  whole.  These  luncheons  feature  a  speaker  from 
the  Faculty  or  from  outside — I'm  going  to  have  the  pleasure  in 
March  of  introducing  Pembroke's  Dean  Nancy  Duke  Lewis— 
and  are  very  well-attended.  The  luncheons  attract  Faculty  mem- 
bers as  well  as  students,  and  occasionally  we  even  pick  up  a  stray 
fraternity  man.  The  Head  Resident  Fellow  is  at  home  for  tea 
every  Sunday  during  the  academic  year.  In  addition,  he  oversees 
the  activities  of  the  other  Resident  Fellows. 

The  latter  live  in  bachelor  quarters,  either  large  single  rooms 
or  two-room  suites,  agreeably  furnished  by  the  University.  They 

*THE  RESIDENT  FELLOWS  at  Brown  this  year  make  an 
interesting  group,  with  a  variety  of  background.  In  addition  to  those 
mentioned  above,  they  are:  James  Barnhill,  English  Dept.,  a 
Director  in  the  Drama  program,  graduate  of  Yale  and  N.Y.U., 
taught  at  Dubuque.  Dr.  Joachim  Bruhn,  Modern  Languages,  grad- 
uate of  Kiel,  Germany,  taught  at  Oxford  and  the  University  of 
London.  Richard  Chorley,  Geology,  graduate  of  Oxford,  taught  at 
Columbia.  Mark  Edwards,  Classics,  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Bristol,  England.  Dr.  Walter  Freiberger,  Applied  Math,  graduate  of 
the  University  of  Melbourne  and  Cambridge.  Warren  llchman  '55, 
Political  Science,  who  had  a  year  at  Cambridge  University  as  a 
Rotary  Fellow.  Donald  Malm,  Mathematics,  graduate  of  North- 
western and  Brown.  Thomas  Mulhern,  Mathematics,  graduate  of 
Fordham  and  Brown.  Dr.  Walter  Schnerr,  Modern  Languages, 
graduate  of  Penn,  taught  at  Grinnell  and  Penn  and  has  just  re- 
turned from  a  sabbatical  in  Europe.  Oliver  E.  Overseth,  Jr.,  Physics, 
graduate  of  the  University  of  Chicago.  Richard  Rosecrance,  Politi- 
cal Science,  graduate  of  Swarthmore  and  Harvard.  Robert  Gould, 
Political  Science,  graduate  of  the  University  of  Maine  and  Brown. 
Ten  are  candidates  for  advanced  degrees. 

Dr.  Henry  Kucera,  Head  Resident  Fellow,  Modern  Languages, 
is  a  graduate  of  Charles  University,  Czechoslovakia,  and  Harvard 
who  had  previously  taught  at  the  University  of  Florida.  In  addition. 
Dr.  A.  David  Kossoff,  Modern  Languages,  Dr.  John  Ladd,  Phi- 
losophy, and  Prof.  C.  A.  Robinson,  Jr.,  Classics,  are  Associate 
Fellows. 


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BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


all  have  private  baths  but  no  kitchen  facilities.  The  Fellows  are 
at  home  usually  one  night  a  week  to  serve  coffee  and  cookies, 
but  are  available  at  other  times  as  well.  The  University  sets  no 
restrictions  on  when  or  how  often  we  should  be  "on  call."  The 
Fellows  attend  dorm  meetings  and  dinners;  they  chaperon  at 
parties;  they  do  numerous  other  things  that  the  system's  first 
sponsors  could  never  have  foreseen.  Most  of  all,  they  are  "avail- 
able." Not  the  meanest  of  these  fringe  benefits  are  the  books  and 
records  we  lend  from  our  personal  libraries.  As  one  Fellow  re- 
marked in  his  annual  report  last  June:  "I  am  teacher,  scholar, 
adviser,  host,  and  handyman." 

But  enough  for  the  20''o;  now  you're  going  to  hear  about  me. 

Bi(xton  House  Sf>ecialties 

My  annual  program  in  Buxton  House  begins  with  a  welcom- 
ing party  with  cider  and  doughnuts  in  September.  This  gives  us 
a  chance  to  get  to  know  each  other.  At  a  Christmas  open  house 
in  December  I  serve  a  punch  that  has  become  famous  over  the 
years.  (Recipe  on  request.) 

Besides  these  particular  affairs,  I  conform  to  the  standard 
pattern  of  serving  sherry  before  dorm  dinners — pineapple  juice 
is  also  on  tap  for  those  who  prefer  it — and  having  snack-times 
a  night  or  two  a  week.  Dorm  dinners  are  usually  held  each 
month  in  one  of  the  Refectory's  private  dining  rooms;  the 
students  make  all  the  arrangements  and  secure  the  guest 
speakers. 

Ten  o'clock  in  the  evening  is  the  most  popular  snack-hour.  It 
offers  a  breather  from  the  books,  especially  at  term-paper  or 
exam  time.  The  new  instant  hot  drinks  are  the  answer  to  a 
Resident  Fellow's  prayers,  especially  when  I  can  make  coffee, 
tea  or  cocoa  all  from  a  single  pot  of  boiling  water.  Peanut  butter 
and  crackers,  and  sometimes  cookies  and  cake,  provide  dunking 
material.  Such  gatherings  often  develop  into  bull  sessions  that 
may  drag  on  well  beyond  midnight.  Subjects  range  from  Secre- 
tary Dulles  and  the  Suez  question  to  whether  William  Words- 
worth was  a  simpleton  or  not  and  why  girls  aren't  allowed  in 
dormitory  rooms  above  the  first  floor — especially  on  spring 
weekend! 

My  expense  account  pays  for  the  refreshments.  I  also  have 
enough  to  pay  for  subscriptions  to  a  daily  and  a  Sunday  paper. 
I  used  to  provide  a  couple  of  magazine  subscriptions  as  well, 
but  the  boys  themselves  donate  their  own  periodicals  to  the 
lounge. 

Dance  Lessons  and  Water-Fights 

Now  I'd  like  to  touch  lightly  on  some  of  the  particular  ex- 
periences I've  had  in  the  past  five  years  to  give  you  an  idea  of 
the  variety  we  enjoy.  First  of  all  there  was  the  boy  who  didn't 
know  how  to  dance  and  was  panic-stricken  when  a  Pembroker 
invited  him  to  the  Junior  Prom.  I  arranged  with  another  student 
in  the  dorm  to  give  him  dance  lessons  in  my  room,  and  for  a 
couple  of  weeks  he  practiced  steps  for  15  minutes  each  night 
right  after  dinner.  He  was  still  a  little  shaky  when  the  big 
evening  came,  but  he  went,  he  danced,  he  had  a  wonderful  time. 

When  water-fights  started  up  one  Spring,  I  tried  to  stop  them 
by  simple  reasoning  and  was  unsuccessful.  One  night  a  boy 
slipped  on  the  wet  floor  and  fell.  The  result  was  a  slight  brain 
concussion  that  kept  him  from  taking  his  final  examinations. 
The  accident  was  enough  to  end  the  water-fights  that  semester, 
but  they  started  up  again  the  next  year.  I  had  to  resort  to  some 
deception.  I  arranged  with  Bill  Crooker  '42,  who  was  then 
Assistant  Director  of  Student  Residences,  to  have  a  letter  sent 
to  one  of  the  three  boys  who  were  initiating  the  nightly  battles. 
The  letter  advised  this  student  that  he  was  being  transferred  to 
another  dormitory  within  the  week. 

The  reaction  was  a  little  more  than  I  expected.  As  I  had  ex- 
pected, the  boy  and  his  two  cohorts  came  to  me  with  the 
promise  that  they  would  stop  the  fighting  if  I  would  recall  the 
eviction.  I  said  that  I  couldn't  do  anything  now,  that  I  had  tried 
to  reason  with  them  and  failed,  that  this  measure  was  the  only 


way  out.  What  I  wasn't  prepared  for  was  the  contingent  of  non- 
combatants  who  promised  that  they  would  see  to  it  that  no 
more  fights  went  on  in  the  dorm  if  I  let  the  boy  stay  in.  Needless 
to  say,  I  capitulated. 

An  NROTC  student  went  home  for  Christmas  his  Senior  year 
and  came  back  to  school  wearing  glasses.  He  needed  them  only 
for  reading,  but  he  was  hesitant  about  letting  the  Navy  know 
about  his  vision  for  fear  he  might  be  dropped  from  the  unit.  On 
the  other  hand,  he  wanted  to  know  what  would  happen  to  him 
if  the  defect  showed  up  in  the  final  pre-commissioning  physical 
exam.  I  made  the  necessary  inquiries  without  mentioning  any 
names — of  Dean  (Rear  Admiral)  Durgin  and  got  the  boy  the 
information  he  wanted. 


SNOW  of  Buxton  House  (right):  Port  of  the  job  is  listening  and  understand- 
ing. Student  is  S.  A.  McCleilan,  Jr. 

Last  year  I  had  three  Freshmen  in  the  dorm,  in  a  double  room 
furnished  with  a  single  bed  and  a  double-decker.  They  were 
football  players,  pretty  hefty.  One  night  the  boy  on  the  bottom 
bunk  kicked  the  boy  on  the  top  bunk  off  onto  the  single  bunk, 
which  collapsed.  They  managed  to  wire  the  bed  together  with 
coat-hangers  so  that  it  was  serviceable  for  a  couple  of  nights. 
But,  knowing  that  the  damage  would  be  discovered  sooner  or 
later,  they  finally  came  down  to  tell  me  about  it  and  ask  my 
advice.  By  devious  means  I  learned  the  replacement  cost  of 
such  a  bed;  I  told  them  they  could  report  it  themselves  and  pay 
for  a  new  one,  wait  for  it  to  be  discovered  and  pay  for  a  new 
one,  or  fix  it  themselves.  One  of  the  boys  who  lived  nearby  in 
Massachusetts  took  it  home  with  him  one  weekend  and  brought 
it  back  one  Sunday  night,  all  repaired. 

One  night  there  were  four  students  in  the  room  at  snacktime 
when  another  student  came  in  to  talk  to  me  about  a  personal 
matter.  Figuring  that  it  was  easier  for  me  to  leave  the  room  with 
him  than  make  the  other  boys  get  out,  I  went  downstairs  to  the 
lounge  to  talk  with  him.  I  was  gone  about  10  minutes.  When  I 
returned,  the  room  had  been  completely  rearranged.  Every 
piece  of  furniture  was  in  a  different  place.  I  proved  somewhat 
of  a  spoil-sport  by  remarking  that  I  thought  the  new  layout  was 
wonderful  and  even  wished  that  I  had  thought  of  it  myself.  They 
offered  to  put  it  back  in  place,  but  I  said  "No,"  that  I  liked  it 
the  way  it  was.  However,  when  I  discovered  later  that  I  couldn't 
open  the  closet  door  because  of  the  placement  of  the  bed,  I  did 
call  them  back  in,  and  they  returned  everything  to  its  proper 
location. 


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15 


I've  also  had  the  unmatchable  pleasure  of  introducing  a  boy 
to  the  Boston  Symphony  Orchestra.  In  return,  I  learned  from 
him  to  understand  and  appreciate  modern  jazz — much  of  it 
right  up  here  at  Storyville.  One  student  taught  me  how  to  use  a 
slide  rule,  another  how  to  curse  in  Yiddish.  As  in  all  truly  edu- 
cational experiences,  I'm  sure  I've  gained  more  than  I've  given 
out  in  the  past  five  years. 

If  anyone  should  ask  me  what  I  consider  the  most  important 
single  thing  that  I  do  as  a  Resident  Fellow,  I  would  reply:  "I 
listen."  Most  of  the  time,  when  a  boy  has  a  problem,  all  he  is 
looking  for  is  someone  to  tell  it  to. 

There  Are  Occasional  Problems 

By  no  means  is  the  system  perfect.  There  are  Resident  Fellows 
who  haven't  the  patience  and  flexibility  necessary  to  meet  stu- 
dents on  a  common  ground.  There  are  students  who  resist  any 
attempt  to  be  "reached."  Usually,  the  Fellows  who  don't  fit 
realize  their  miscasting  and  ask  to  be  replaced.  As  for  the  stu- 
dents, I  have  learned  that  it  is  not  wise  to  impose  on  their 
privacy.  Most  of  them  are  contentedly  self-sufficient;  the  ones 
who  are  in  need  of  the  contact  will  eventually  come  looking  for 
it. 

I  remember  one  Resident  Fellow  who  was  too  successful.  He 
was  too  well-liked  by  the  boys  in  his  dormitory  and  left  the  ranks 
after  two  years  because  he  never  had  any  time  to  himself.  He 
didn't  have  the  heart  to  say  he  was  busy  when  someone  knocked 
on  his  door  or  to  say  he  was  going  to  bed  when  a  discussion  was 
still  going  strong  at  12:30.  Both  of  these  inhospitable  feints  I 
have  learned  to  make.  The  students  understand. 

I  don't  think  they  did  understand  one  Visiting  Professor, 
though.  He  was  in  his  fifties,  with  a  wife  and  family  in  England. 
He  was  a  philosopher  and  a  bit-distant.  When  he  was  advised 
that  most  Resident  Fellows  have  a  time  each  week  when  they 
are  in  their  rooms  and  available  to  students,  he  promptly  estab- 
lished 7  a.m.  on  Wednesdays  as  his  visiting  period.  He  even 
expressed  surprise  when  no  one  showed  up. 

In  five  years,  I  find  that  I  have  experienced  different  degrees 
of  interest  myself  regarding  my  attachment  to  Buxton  House. 
When  I  moved  in  in  1952,  there  were  26  students  in  the  dormi- 
tory. This  number  dwindled  each  year  as  the  neighboring  fra- 
ternity increased  its  membership,  and  my  enthusiasm  dwindled 
with  it.  At  the  lowest  ebb,  two  years  ago,  I  had  12  dormitory 
residents.  Of  these,  four  were  members  of  Tower  Club,  three 
were  pledged-but-not-initiated  fraternity  men,  two  were  Seniors 
who  liked  being  independent,  and  three  were  Freshmen.  House 
spirit  did  not  exist,  there  were  no  dorm  dinners,  my  snack  hours 
were  poorly  attended. 

As  compensation,  I  took  it  upon  myself  to  get  interested  in  a 
fraternity  at  which  I  had  chaperoned.  The  brothers  came  over  to 
play  bridge  or  just  shoot  the  breeze,  and  I  was  host  to  them  as  I 
would  be  to  my  own  charges.  I  consider  this  a  legitimate  ex- 
tension of  the  Resident  Fellow  operation.  Generally  speaking, 
the  fraternities  do  not  seek  us  out  very  often,  but  I  have  had 
some  rewarding  experiences  with  the  other  50%  of  our  campus 
population.  Every  week  I  try  to  eat  at  least  one  of  my  Refectory 
meals  in  a  fraternity  dining  room. 

Continuity  in  the  House 

Originally,  it  was  hoped  that  a  Resident  Fellow  staying  on  in 
a  dormitory  would  establish  a  house  character  that  would  carry 
over  from  year  to  year.  However,  the  population  fluctuates 
every  year  in  one  dormitory  or  another,  since  the  available 
space  is  usually  dependent  on  the  size  of  adjacent  fraternities. 
You'll  recall  that  the  partitions  which  separate  fraternity  from 
dormitory  arc  moveable.  A  growing  fraternity  may  encroach  on 
the  dormitory  space  independent  of  it,  forcing  a  dorm  resident 
to  surrender  the  room  he  has  had  and  take  another,  despite  his 
seniority.  This  fluctuation  handicaps  the  development  of  con- 
tinuous House  character.  In  fact,  this  was  one  argument  used  in 


a  recent  Brown  Daily  Herald  editorial  which  created  a  Campus 
sensation  by  urging  that  Brown  substitute  the  house  plan  for 
fraternities. 

We  could  have  strong  house  loyalty,  if  it  had  a  chance. 
Whether  the  new  West  Quadrangle,  scheduled  to  open  next  fall, 
housing  non-fraternity  men  only,  will  make  such  House  char- 
acter possible,  I  do  not  know.  In  the  new  Quadrangle  there  will 
be  three  married  Resident  Fellows  and  three  single  Resident 
Fellows,  and  time  alone  will  reveal  what  they  can  achieve.  This 
year,  I  have  come  around  full  circle;  I  have  22  residents  in 
Buxton  House  and  I'm  having  a  wonderful  time  again. 

From  a  personal  standpoint,  a  bachelor  couldn't  have  a  better 
deal  if  he  has,  as  I  do,  an  interest  in  the  academic  life  and  a 
sincere  liking  for  people.  I'm  enthusiastic  because  I  like  it.  The 
contacts  I  have  made  and  the  relationships  I  have  enjoyed  con- 
tinue to  reward  me,  even  after  my  particular  friends  among  the 
students  have  graduated. 

Above  all,  I  remember  the  boy  on  the  baseball  team  who  lived 
across  the  hall  from  me  in  his  Senior  year.  He  went  with  a  girl 
from  Pembroke.  She  would  come  back  to  the  dorm  with  him 
after  a  game  and,  while  he  was  changing  his  clothes  in  his  room, 
I  would  entertain  her  in  mine.  They  were  married  a  year  after 
graduation,  and  last  June  they  had  a  baby  boy.  "Ever  true  to 
Brown,"  they  gave  their  son  the  middle  name  of  Barnaby.  But, 
while  his  middle  name  is  Barnaby,  his  first  name — and  this  I 
want  you  to  note  carefully — his  first  name  is  Douglas.  And 
that's  how  I  got  ahead  of  the  President! 


The  New  Dean 

(Continued  from  page  3) 

A  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engi- 
neers and  the  American  Society  of  Electrical  Engineers,  he 
has  been  Chairman  of  the  Student  Branch  Committee  of 
ASME  for  Region  One  (New  England  and  New  York).  He 
is  a  former  Chairman  of  the  Providence  Section  of  ASME 
and  a  Past  President  of  the  Providence  Engineering  Society. 
He  is  one  of  the  five  members  of  the  Standardization  Commit- 
tee for  the  ASME,  supervising  all  that  it  does  for  the  American 
Standards  Association  in  this  field,  and  is  Chairman  of  the 
Sectional  Committee  B-4  ( "standardization  of  limits  and  fits") . 
He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  for  Metals  and  the 
Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Engineering  Education.  He  has 
been  a  Vice-President  of  the  Brown  Engineering  Association. 

From  Private  to  Colonel 

As  an  Army  Colonel,  Bliss  received  the  Legion  of  Merit 
award  for  duties  performed  in  the  military  intelligence  service 
in  1945  (he  also  has  an  Army  Commendation  Ribbon).  He 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Rhode  Island  National  Guard  for 
nearly  20  years  when  it  was  inducted  into  the  Army  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1941.  He  had  enlisted  as  a  private  and  moved  up  rap- 
idly. At  one  time,  he  served  on  the  personal  staff  of  Governor 
Norman  S.  Case  '08  as  military  aide. 

When  the  43rd  Division  was  "triangularized"  at  the  start 
of  World  War  II,  Bliss  was  Executive  Officer  of  the  58th  Field 
Artillery  Brigade  with  the  rank  of  Lt.  Colonel.  After  duty  as 
Anti-Tank  Officer  of  the  Division,  he  served  with  the  4th  Army 
Corps  and  3rd  Army  Headquarters,  was  transferred  to  the 
anti-aircraft  artillery,  and  finally  moved  on  to  military  intelli- 
gence. It  was  while  as  a  Colonel  in  the  latter  that  he  wrote: 
"Being  the  Commanding  Officer  of  a  Post  Office  Box  sounds 
screwy,  but  that's  what  I  am.  I  have  about  as  near  an  inde- 
pendent command  as  it  is  possible  to  have,  my  nearest  boss 
being  3000  miles  away." 


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BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


AS  MACE-BEARER,  Professor  Bliss 
has  preceded  the  President  in  Brown 
academic  processions,  with  the  symbol 
of  University  authority.  Now,  as 
Dean  of  the  University,  he  will  be 
Dr.  Keeney's  principal  executive  aide. 


One  of  his  most  extraordinary  military  experiences  was  as 
commanding  officer  of  the  Army's  first  experimental  unit 
which  attempted  to  discover  whether  illiterate  soldiers  could 
be  taught  to  read  and  write  in  six  weeks  and  so  made  useful  to 
the  Army.  He  proved  it  could  be  done,  and  the  success  of  the 
work  at  Camp  Shelby  led  to  similar  units  elsewhere.  During 
some  six  months  in  charge  of  this  experiment,  some  1500  men 
were  trained. 

Later,  from  Camp  Wallace,  he  wrote:  "I  am  still  running 
an  assortment  of  schools,  but  only  incidentally,  and  I  can  re- 
ally consider  that  I  am  commanding  a  military  unit  instead  of 
a  kindergarten.  My  outfit  is  almost  the  size  of  Brown  at  its 
normal  peacetime  level,  and  I  have  learned  that  being  a  college 
president  isn't  probably  too  tough  a  job.  I  have  one  advantage, 
however,  in  that  the  Faculty  damn  well  has  to  do  what  I  say, 
or  else.  We  have  no  problems  of  academic  freedom." 

Such  comments,  obviously  not  meant  at  the  time  for  pub- 
lication, were  contained  in  Christmas  letters  for  the  University 
Club  of  Providence,  in  which  he  has  long  been  an  active  mem- 
ber. He  served  as  its  President  for  a  number  of  years  after  the 
war. 

From  Rowboat  to  Cup  Defender 

Bliss'  lifelong  hobby  has  been  sailing  both  as  a  casual  boat- 
handler,  cruiser,  and  competitor.  Yankee  magazine  once  said: 
"He  says  he  was  born  in  Cranston,  R.  I.,  in  1898,  but  his 
friends  say  he  was  born  in  a  sailboat."  He  still  sails  an  occa- 
sional race  in  Salt  Pond,  where  he  has  been  Commodore  of  the 
Point  Judith  Yacht  Club.  In  1927  he  was  Secretary  of  the 
Ship  Model  Society  of  Rhode  Island,  an  organization  with 
about  100  members.  One  of  the  Bliss  models  was  of  a  New 
York  pilot  schooner.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Cruising  Club  of 
America. 

His  international  fame  in  yachting  rests  on  his  work  as  navi- 


gator of  the  last  two  defenders  of  the  America's  Cup,  the  Rain- 
bow and  the  Ranger.  "The  most  exciting  thing  that  can  happen 
to  a  navigator  is  to  have  his  calculations  work  out  right,"  said 
Yankee,  "but  no  one  else  thinks  this  is  exciting — they  just  ex- 
pect it.  The  navigator,  therefore,  can  lose  a  race  but  never 
win  one!"  When  the  Rainbow  won  one  of  its  races  by  one  sec- 
ond, it  was  "the  most  exciting  moment  in  Mr.  Bliss'  life.  But 
no  one  said,  'Hurrah  for  Bliss.'  " 

The  late  Jeff  Davis  of  the  Providence  Journal,  one  of  the 
great  ornaments  of  yachting  for  many  seasons,  once  wrote  of 
the  navigator's  "technical,  complicated,  and  fussy  job."  "If 
Zene  goes  asleep  at  the  switch.  Rainbow  probably  won't  win 
many  races,"  said  Jeff.  "Zene  sits  in  a  little  coop  in  the  com- 
panionway  with  a  chart  of  the  course,  parallel  rules,  compass, 
dividers,  and  a  lot  of  other  instruments  in  front  of  him,  and 
traces  the  course  of  the  boat  as  she  goes,  on  the  chart. 

"After  figuring  speed,  direction,  leeway,  whether  the  tide  is 
setting  him  to  windward  or  leeward,  and,  going  into  the  fu- 
ture, what  the  same  elements  will  do  to  the  boat  on  the  other 
tack,  plus  the  position  of  the  turning  mark,  the  navigator  can 
stick  the  point  of  his  dividers  in  the  chart  and  tell  the  skipper, 
'We're  here;  we  can  fetch  the  mark  on  the  other  tack.'  He  also 
keeps  the  time  at  the  start  and  on  the  different  legs,  watches 
for  signals  during  the  race,  and  keeps  the  log.  Soft  job? 
Maybe."  Bliss  also  relieved  tension  aboard  before  the  starts 
by  playing  his  accordion.  (The  instrument  has  been  neglected 
of  late.) 

"Best  Navigator  in  the  World" 

W.  Starling  Burgess,  designer  of  the  Ranger,  called  the 
Brown  Professor  "the  best  navigator  in  the  United  States,  if 
not  in  the  world."  Captain  Ben  Pine,  master  of  the  Gloucester 
fishing  schooner,  Gertrude  L.  Thebaud,  also  asked  Bliss  to  be 
navigator  in  the   1938  races  for  the  international  fishermen's 


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17 


trophy  against  the  Nova  Scotian  Bluenose.  Bliss  was  in  great 
demand  as  a  lecturer  on  the  various  Cup  races;  with  the  pos- 
sible revival  of  America's  Cup  competition  in  the  offing,  he  has 
had  invitations  again  to  speak  on  the  subject  this  winter.  He 
has  taught  navigation  to  Brown  students,  too,  and  helped  the 
Brown  Yacht  Club  get  its  new  fleet  of  Fiberglas  dinghies.  A 
number  of  good  skippers  have  come  to  Brown  as  undergradu- 
ates, knowing  they  would  sail  under  his  direction  as  Chairman 
of  the  Nautical  Advisory  Committee. 

In  September,  1934,  Bliss  had  an  unusual  problem  to  re- 
solve, as  the  New  York  Herald  Tribune  pointed  out  at  the  time. 
As  a  Brown  Professor,  he  had  to  get  ready  for  fall  classes.  As  a 
Captain  in  the  National  Guard,  he  had  been  sent  to  Sayles- 
ville  for  duty  during  the  textile  strike  there.  He  was  also  re- 
ceiver for  a  rayon  plant  in  Woonsocket,  where  there  had  been 
some  disturbance.  And,  of  course,  he  was  to  be  the  navigator 
on  the  Rainbow.  It  all  worked  out  so  that  he  could  be  on  board. 

An  honor  which  came  to  Professor  Bliss  in  1949  was  rather 
unusual  for  an  engineer.  He  served  for  two  years  as  President 
of  the  R.  I.  Alpha  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  The  nominating  com- 
mittee of  Sigma  Xi  had  had  its  eye  on  him  for  its  presidency, 
but  he  declined  in  view  of  the  other  commitment. 

Filling  out  a  blank  for  1918's  30th  reunion  report,  Bliss 
noted:  "Just  finished  as  President  of  the  Providence  Engineer- 
ing Society.  Fairly  active  in  professional  societies.  Ordinary 
lazy  citizen,  otherwise."  But  his  citizenship  was  to  include  serv- 
ice on  the  Cranston  School  Committee,  of  which  he  is  the 
current  Chairman.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Narragansett 
Council,  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  Secretary  of  the  American 
Society  for  Nautical  Research,  The  Players  of  Providence,  the 
old  East  Side  Skating  Club,  the  U.  S.  Field  Artillery  Associa- 
tion, the  Reserve  Officers  Association,  National  Sojourners, 
Providence  Art  Club,  A.E.  Club,  and  Harmony  Lodge,  F.  & 
A.M.,  and  Harmony  Royal  Arch  Chapter. 

Two  minor  occupations  are  a  successful  devotion  to  African 
violets  and  hi-fi  equipment  and  records. 

A  Family  of  Brunonians 

The  first  Zenas  Bliss  on  the  rolls  of  Brown  University  re- 
ceived an  A.B.  and  an  A.M.  in  1826.  The  10th  item  in  the 
order  of  exercises  at  the  Commencement  that  year  was  a  dis- 
sertation by  him  on  "The  Influence  of  Theatrical  Exhibitions 
on  a  Nation."  He  became  a  law  student,  calico  printer,  broker, 
and  manufacturing  agent. 

Dean  Bliss'  father,  Zenas  Work  Bliss,  received  an  honorary 
degree  from  Brown  in  1916.  President  Faunce's  citation  iden- 
tified him  as  a  "Student  of  economic  problems,  Chairman  of 
the  Rhode  Island  Board  of  Tax  Commissioners,  who  by  long 
and  patient  study  of  the  problems  of  taxation  has  rendered 
conspicuous  service  to  the  modern  state."  The  senior  Bliss, 
who  died  only  a  few  weeks  before  his  son's  promotion  at 
Brown,  was  also  Lieutenant  Governor  of  Rhode  Island. 

Mrs.  Bliss  is  the  former  Alice  Taylor  Wilcox,  whom  he 
married  in  1924.  She  is  the  sister  of  Col.  Howard  D.  Wil- 
cox, Jr.,  '35.  John  B.  Kilton  and  George  W.  Kilton,  both  '25, 
are  Bliss'  cousins.  The  Dean's  sons  are  Zenas  W.  Bliss  '49  and 
Randall  W.  Bliss  '50.  The  Bliss  home  is  on  Armington  St., 
Edgewood,  while  their  summer  place  in  Matunuck  has  a  sign 
"Elysium,"  leaving  the  passerby  or  visitor  to  recall  that  this 
means  to  the  lexicographer  and  others  "the  abode  of  Bliss." 

We  referred  above  to  the  questionnaire  for  the  1948  re- 
union report  of  his  Class.  Asked  to  name  the  high  spots  of  his 
life  for  that  document,  he  replied:  "Too  many  high  spots  to 
pick  out  anything  special.  All  such  things  are  relative,  anyhow. 
To  date,  low  spots  have  been  few  and  very  temporary.  Must 
have  been  lucky."  The  questioning  concluded  with  one  more 
query:  "Anything  else?"  Professor  Bliss  said,  "Not  now." 

For  the  reunion  in  1958,  Dean  Bliss  will  have  a  fresh  an- 
swer to  that  question. 


A  New  Program  ' 
for  Teachers 


275,000  Grant  Enables 
Brown  to  Try  a  Novel 
Move  to  Aid  the  Schools 


ENABLED  to  do  so  by  a  $275,000  grant  from  the  Fund  for 
the  Advancement  of  Education,  Brown  University  this 
year  will  begin  a  new  program  designed  to  strengthen  teach- 
ing at  the  high  school  level.  It  will  offer  courses  leading  to  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  Teaching,  remarkable  in  that  they 
will  draw  upon  the  full  Liberal  Arts  resources  of  the  Univer- 
sity. 

The  new  intentions  are  three-fold:  First,  the  program  will 
give  high  school  teachers  graduate  training  which  will  round 
out  their  cultural  background,  with  special  emphasis  in  the 
fields  in  which  they  teach.  Second,  the  program  will  seek  to  in- 
crease the  supply  of  teachers  by  making  it  possible  for  Liberal 
Arts  graduates  to  train  in  the  techniques  of  teaching  while 
they  broaden  and  deepen  their  education.  (At  present,  such 
graduates  may  not  enter  a  public  high  school  classroom  with- 
out specific  training  in  such  techniques.)  Finally,  the  program 
will  attempt  a  better  understanding  between  colleges  and 
school  officials  through  conferences,  studies,  and  special  work- 
shops in  educational  problems. 

Brown  has  long  offered  undergraduate  and  graduate  work 
in  its  Department  of  Education,  with  provision  for  a  Master  of 
Arts  degree  in  Education.  A  major  difference  in  the  new  pro- 
gram is  that  it  will  not  be  confined  to  the  Department  but  draw 
upon  others.  If  the  "pilot  operation"  is  successful  at  Brown,  it 
may  well  provide  a  new  pattern  for  teacher-training.  In  addi- 
tion to  courses  starting  next  September,  Brown  is  also  planning 
a  summer  session  from  July  1  to  Aug.  15  for  between  150  and 
200  teachers  who  desire  work  at  the  graduate  level. 

"We'll  Have  a  Clearer  Conscience" 

"Many  universities  have  made  an  effort  to  improve  the 
school  system  by  the  development  of  a  College  of  Education," 
President  Keeney  explained.  "Thereby  they  have  cut  off  the 
student  teachers  from  the  full  participation  and  influence  of  a 
Liberal  Arts  Faculty.  Our  plan  is  the  reverse:  to  make  impor- 
tant use  of  that  Faculty.  We  shall  offer  the  teacher  a  broad  and 
intensive  knowledge  of  subject  matter  in  his  field,  which  he 
has  often  had  to  neglect  because  of  his  preoccupation  with 
pedagogy  in  the  technical  sense. 

"We  have  a  built-in  obligation  to  help  provide  good  teachers 
at  all  levels.  A  place  like  Brown  ought  to  be  taking  a  leading 
part  in  the  preparation  of  teachers  because  it  stands  in  the 
upper  layer  of  education.  We  shall  have  a  clearer  conscience 
as  we  make  this  contribution  from  our  strength.  What  we  do 
will  be  compatible  with  our  resources  and  beneficial  to  sec- 
ondary education. 

"The  immediate  effect  will  be  local  in  part.  Because  of  the 
compactness  of  Rhode  Island  and  our  peculiar  relationship 
with  it.  Brown  is  probably  the  only  privately  supported  uni- 


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KEY  FIGURES  in  the  new  M.A.T.  program  at  Brown:  Profs.  Gilbert  E.  Case  '25  and  Elmer  R.  Smith  '26. 


versity  in  the  country  which  can  carry  on  a  program  of  teacher- 
training  which  will  make  an  impact  throughout  the  whole 
State.  But  the  influence  of  our  undertaking  will  be  wider  both 
through  our  product  and  our  example.  Herein  lies  the  justifi- 
cation for  the  generous  foundation  grant  we  have  received. 

"Apart  from  the  benefits  to  society  in  general,  we  have  also 
a  selfish  interest  in  the  program.  When  the  foundation  of  edu- 
cation is  weak,  it  reflects  all  the  way  up — even  to  the  level  of 
the  doctorate.  With  better  teaching,  better  prepared  students 
will  come  to  us  from  Rhode  Island  and  elsewhere. 

To  Reverse  a  Trend 

"We  are  concerned  about  the  failure  of  our  Liberal  Arts 
graduates  to  go  into  high  school  teaching  in  larger  numbers. 
The  trend  is  reversing,  especially  at  Pembroke,  but  not  enough 
are  looking  to  a  career  as  teachers  in  secondary  education, 
despite  the  national  need  and  the  growing  rewards.  The  num- 
ber is  small  compared  with  those  going  on  to  graduate  work 
in  other  fields  like  law,  medicine,  or  arts  and  sciences.  We  be- 
lieve we  shall  open  the  door  for  more  of  our  graduates  to  enter 
teaching. 

"Put  it  another  way:  The  American  secondary  school,  seek- 
ing to  strengthen  and  adapt  its  program  to  serve  youth  more 
effectively,  represents  an  educational  task  worthy  of  the  ablest 
talent  a  university  can  produce.  Able  Liberal  Arts  graduates 
who  plan  to  make  teaching  their  life  work  should  be  culti- 
vated, broad-minded  persons  capable  of  leadership  of  youth 
and  of  the  community  in  a  wide  range  of  intellectual,  social, 
and  spiritual  affairs.  They  should  bring  to  the  secondary  class- 
room enthusiasm  and  superior  intellectual  training.  The  goal 


of  Brown's  new  program  is  to  encourage  and  assist  such  worthy 
ambitions. 

"The  old  view  that  'teachers  are  born  and  not  made'  was  an 
extreme  attitude  on  the  part  of  some  college  professors;  it  im- 
plied a  contempt  of  the  educationist.  I  don't  believe  a  man  is. 
born  to  teaching,  but  I  do  believe  we  can  help  the  young  teach- 
ers. We  have  succeeded  with  teaching  'interns'  at  the  college 
level  at  Brown  for  some  time,  giving  them  the  guidance  of  ex- 
cellent, experienced  teachers.  We  can  succeed  with  the  same 
attitude  toward  high  school  teachers.  The  result  will  be  both 
quantitative  and  qualitative. 

"Who  can  predict  or  appraise  the  impact  of  a  teacher  on  a 
student?  The  important  contact  may  come  outside  of  the  class- 
room— in  a  conference,  on  the  Campus,  during  a  coffee-break, 
even  at  a  dance.  Something  a  good  teacher  says  or  does  may 
change  the  student's  whole  life.  We'd  like  to  increase  the  fre- 
quency of  that  effect.  The  MAT  candidate  will  have  oppor- 
tunities for  such  contacts  with  our  ablest  men  at  Brown;  in 
turn,  he  will  make  his  impact  on  his  own  students  more  often 
when  he  is  a  better  teacher  himself.  Even  in  mass  education, 
the  individual  is  still  central." 

The  $275,000  grant  is  intended  by  the  Fund  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Education  to  sustain  the  teacher-training  pro- 
gram during  its  initial  three  years.  Some  of  the  money  is  in- 
tended to  finance  studies  of  the  problems  of  secondary  schools, 
to  be  jointly  undertaken  with  the  public  school  officials. 

With  the  Faculty  Behind  It 

The  expanded  program  at  Brown  is  the  result  of  study  ex- 
tending over  a  number  of  years,  heightened  during  the  past 


MARCH    1957 


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-^^  :" 


HORACE  MANN:  "The  father  of  the  American  public  school  system"  would 
have  cheered  his  Alma  Mater's  program  for  teachers. 


year  and  a  half  through  the  work  of  a  committee  of  the  Brown 
Faculty  and  Administration.  Presiding  over  this  was  Dr.  R. 
Bruce  Lindsay  '20,  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  working 
closely  with  Dr.  Gilbert  E.  Case  '25,  Chairman  of  the  Uni- 
versity's Department  of  Education.  It  has  been  approved  by 
the  Graduate  Council,  the  Board  of  Fellows,  and  the  Faculty. 
In  fact.  Faculty  support  of  the  project  encouraged  the  com- 
mittee to  make  it  a  concrete  proposal  and  make  the  overtures 
to  the  Fund  for  the  Advancement  of  Education,  which  is  fi- 
nanced by  the  Ford  Foundation. 

The  policies  of  the  program  will  be  determined  by  a  com- 
mittee headed  by  Dr.  Lindsay  and  including  Faculty  mem- 
bers representing  each  of  the  participating  subject  fields.  Ac- 
tive direction  of  the  program  will  be  by  Prof.  Elmer  R.  Smith 
'26  of  the  Department  of  Education. 

When  the  first  graduate  courses  leading  to  the  Master  of 
Arts  in  Teaching  degree  are  offered  in  September,  admission 
to  the  program  will  be  open  to  qualified  men  and  women  grad- 
uates of  colleges  or  universities.  It  is  expected  that  these  will 
have  either  an  undergraduate  major  in  the  field  in  which  they 
plan  to  teach  or  will  be  teachers  in  service  who  have  demon- 
strated exceptional  teaching  ability. 

The  program  will  require  completion  of  eight  semester 
courses  at  the  graduate  level,  including  supervised  practice 
teaching  for  those  who  require  it,  plus  the  writing  of  a  thesis 
op  report.  It  is  expected  that  a  Liberal  Arts  graduate  devoting 


full  time  to  the  program  can  complete  work  for  the  Master's 
degree  during  one  full  academic  year. 

Teachers  in  service,  able  to  give  only  limited  time  to  the 
program,  necessarily  will  extend  their  study  over  a  longer  pe- 
riod, though  courses  in  the  Summer  School  will  enable  them 
to  complete  the  necessary  work  within  a  shorter  time.  Classes 
will  be  scheduled  at  hours  in  the  later  afternoon  or  evening 
when  teachers  can  come  to  the  Brown  Campus. 

To  Meet  an  Individual's  Need 

A  standard  curriculum  is  not  proposed.  Rather,  each  gradu- 
ate student  will  be  able  to  arrange  one  almost  tailor-made  to 
his  needs  and  interests.  His  program  will  vary  according  to  his 
previous  study.  Normally,  candidates  will  be  expected  to  study 
in  the  field  of  their  undergraduate  majors;  but,  if  the  concen- 
tration has  been  too  narrow,  the  students  will  be  advised  to 
take  additional  work  elsewhere.  A  typical  student  will  take 
four  semester  courses  in  the  field  in  which  he  will  teach,  one 
semester  course  of  his  own  choosing  in  another  area,  and  a 
teaching  seminar.  The  Liberal  Arts  graduate  who  has  taken  no 
courses  in  Education  must  also  take  courses  in  the  History  of 
Education,  Principles  and  Philosophy  of  Education,  Educa- 
tional Psychology,  and  Methods  of  Teaching. 

Such  courses  will  be  directed  toward  meeting  the  profes- 
sional certification  requirements  for  beginning  teachers  in  New 
England,  New  York,  and  New  Jersey.  Candidates  without 
teaching  training  or  experience  will  take  studies  necessary  to 
certification.  Even  so,  substantially  half  of  his  courses  will  be 
in  the  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences;  teachers  in  service,  already 
certified,  will  take  an  even  greater  number  of  such  courses. 

According  to  present  plans,  the  MAT  degree  will  be 
awarded  in  English,  Foreign  Languages,  Mathematics,  Sci- 
ence, Social  Studies,  and  specialties  like  Art  and  Music.  In  the 
first  summer  session  the  courses  will  include:  American  His- 
tory, Anthropology,  Chemistry,  English  Literature,  Mathe- 
matics, and  Physics.  Summer  students  will  be  housed  in  the 
Wriston  Quadrangle  and  take  no  more  than  two  courses. 

For  each  such  course  oflfered  in  the  MAT  program,  the  De- 
partment will  require  a  teaching  replacement.  Some  of  the 
foundation  support  will  finance  such  supplementary  instruc- 
tion. Other  money  will  go  toward  scholarships,  special  equip- 
ment, counselling,  and  supervision. 

Brown  will,  of  course,  maintain  and  strengthen  its  present 
program  leading  to  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  in  Education. 
This  work  will  be  of  special  benefit  to  those  preparing  to  teach 
in  elementary  schools,  to  assume  administrative  posts,  or  un- 
dertake research  in  education. 

With  Appreciation  and  Hope 

Immediate  comment  on  the  new  Brown  program  indicated 
that  it  will  have  an  enthusiastic  welcome.  James  K.  Sunshine, 
Education  Editor  of  the  Providence  Journal,  wrote:  "Brown 
University  has  placed  itself  in  the  forefront  of  the  drive  to  im- 
prove the  schools.  Since  its  program  is  a  practical  one  of  con- 
siderable size,  and  since  it  is  directed  mainly  at  the  teacher  in 
the  classroom,  the  effects  are  likely  to  be  widespread  but  right 
to  the  point. 

"The  Brown  program,  in  bringing  the  weight  of  its  Faculty 
to  bear  on  current  education,  is  in  sharp  contrast  to  the  atti- 
tude of  many  good  Liberal  Arts  institutions.  Too  many  have 
allowed  their  own  pique  and  disdain  for  'mass  education'  to 
separate  them  from  any  important  contribution  toward  solving 
the  problems  produced  by  that  education. 

"Since  education  is  apt  to  be  contagious  in  some  respects, 
the  effects  may  be  expected  to  exceed  the  actual  number  of  the 
graduates  in  the  schools  (from  40  to  80  a  year).  What,  for  ex- 
ample, will  be  the  situation  when  a  liberally  educated  young 
teacher  who  has  both  a  deep  knowledge  of  his  field  and  sound 
training  in  the  techniques  of  his  profession  is  thrown  into  con- 


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tact  with  fellow  teachers  not  so  well  versed?  The  hope  of  the 
program's  planners  is  that  he  will  act  as  a  catalytic  agent,  in- 
spiring others,  perhaps  even  irritating  them  into  further  edu- 
cation. And  Brown,  with  evening  courses  and  a  summer 
school,  stands  ready  to  make  it  possible  for  them  to  obtain  it. 

"The  University  won  the  support  of  the  foundation  for  its 
project  largely  because  its  entire  Faculty  will  be  involved  not 
only  in  training  the  teachers  but  also  in  working  directly  with 
school  officials  to  solve  special  problems  in  curriculum  and 
organization." 

"At  a  Time  of  Great  Need" 

Dr.  William  C.  Gaige,  President  of  the  Rhode  Island  Col- 
lege of  Education,  called  the  program  "an  outstanding  step 
forward."  He  praised  it  for  being  directed  toward  the  specific 
needs  of  teachers  rather  than  research  scholars.  "To  the  ex- 
tent that  the  program  brings  the  superior  intellectual  resources 
of  Brown  to  the  high  school  teachers.  Brown  will  be  making  a 
much-needed  contribution,"  he  said. 

Dr.  James  L.  Hanley,  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  Provi- 
dence, said:  "Brown's  new  program  of  service  to  schools  and 
to  teachers  is  wonderful  news.  The  program  will  bring  closer 
and  make  more  available  to  teachers  the  great  resources  of  the 
University.  Its  promise  to  add  to  the  supply  of  teachers  of  high 
quality  comes  at  a  time  of  great  need.  While  the  news  is  of  spe- 
cial significance  to  Rhode  Island,  its  influence  in  leadership 
and  service  extends  far  beyond  the  State." 

Charles  B.  MacKay  '16,  Superintendent  in  Warwick,  R.  I., 
said:  "It's  the  most  sensible  thing  I've  heard  as  far  as  educa- 
tion is  concerned." 

The  State  Commissioner  of  Education,  Dr.  Michael  F. 
Walsh,  called  it  "gratifying  and  encouraging."  He  believes  the 
program  will  be  "beneficial  to  school  administrators,  princi- 
pals, heads  of  departments,  and  teachers  but  also  to  young 
people  in  our  schools." 

Sunshine,  devoting  a  whole  "blockbuster"  page  in  the  Prov- 
idence Journal  to  the  news  and  a  discussion  of  it,  used  a  pic- 
ture of  Horace  Mann  as  one  illustration.  The  "father  of  the 
American  public  school  system"  was  a  graduate  of  the  Class  of 
1819.  The  caption,  pointing  to  Mann  as  Brown's  "prized  link 
with  public  education,"  implied  that  he  would  have  cheered 
the  University's  latest  undertaking,  in  a  long  and  active  tradi- 
tion, in  support  of  his  dreams  for  the  American  public  school. 


DR.  ALBERT  D.  VAN  NOSTRAND  (right)  as  he  appeared  on  a  Brown  Univer- 

sity  television  program  with  Dr.  Jess  Bessinger.  His  series  on  American  Litero- 

ture  will  have  a  national  audience  this  spring. 


MONDAYS,  6:30 


Prof.  Van  Nostrand  Will  Be 
TV  Consultant  on  Literature 
for  NBC's  Spring'  Series 


DR.  Albert  D.  Van  Nostrand,  Associate  Professor  of  Eng- 
lish at  Brown  University,  is  one  of  five  men  chosen  to  ap- 
pear on  a  series  of  programs  planned  by  the  National  Broad- 
casting Company  for  presentation  by  the  country's  educa- 
tional television  stations.  The  projected  series  will  include  five 
programs  weekly  for  13  weeks,  with  the  starting  date  set  ten- 
tatively for  March  11.  NBC  production  facilities  and  network 
lines  will  be  offered  to  the  educational  TV  outlets  for  prepara- 
tion and  distribution  of  the  programs. 

Dr.  Van  Nostrand  will  be  consultant  for  the  series  on  Amer- 
ican Literature,  presiding  over  each  of  its  programs  as  com- 
mentator and  as  host  to  writers  who  will  be  guests.  The  Amer- 
ican Literature  series  will  be  presented  Mondays  from  6:30  to 
7:00  p.m.,  EST. 

Other  programs  in  the  series,  which  will  be  concerned  with 
American  Government,  World  Geography,  Mathematics  and 
Opera,  will  be  presented  on  film  on  succeeding  days  each  week. 
Each  of  the  programs  will  be  filmed,  and  there  are  tentative 
plans  for  their  being  telecast  on  a  delayed  basis  over  certain 
NBC  affiliate  stations. 

Dr.  Van  Nostrand  participated  in  four  half-hour  dialogues 
on  Literature  on  the  Brown  University  TV  program  "From 
College  Hill"  in  1954,  attracting  the  attention  of  the  Educa- 
tional Television  and  Radio  Center  at  Ann  Arbor.  He  and 
Prof.  Jesse  Bessinger,  formerly  of  Brown,  were  asked  to  pro- 
duce eight  programs  called  "A  Prospect  for  Literature"  for 
the  Center.  This  filmed  series  will  be  broadcast  over  both  edu- 
cational and  commercial  TV  stations  throughout  the  nation 
this  spring. 

A  1943  graduate  of  Amherst  College,  Dr.  Van  Nostrand 
holds  M.A.  and  Ph.D.  degrees  from  Harvard  University.  He 
served  in  the  Navy  during  World  War  II  and  came  to  Brown 
in  1951  after  serving  as  a  teaching  fellow  in  English  literature 
at  Harvard.  He  was  promoted  to  associate  professor  in  1956. 
He  has  been  director  of  the  Brown  Honors  Programs  since 
1953  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Faculty  Committee  on 
Academic  Standing  for  the  last  five  years. 

Dr.  Van  Nostrand  currently  has  been  pursuing  research  on 
American  fiction  and  the  book  trade.  A  report  on  part  of  this 
work,  "Making  and  Marketing  Fiction,"  was  published  last 
summer  in  The  American  Quarterly.  He  is  also  preparing,  with 
a  colleague,  Prof.  Charles  H.  Watts  '47,  an  anthology  of  Amer- 
ican poetry,  called  "The  Conscious  Voice,"  to  be  published  in 
the  fall.  He  has  published  or  has  in  preparation  numerous 
articles,  mostly  literary  criticism,  with  some  bibliographical 
reporting  and  expository  writing.  He  is  an  active  member  of  a 
number  of  learned  societies. 

Others  scheduled  to  appear  on  the  projected  NBC  series 
are:  Dr.  Albert  E.  Burke,  Professor  of  Geography  at  Yale 
University;  Dr.  Paul  Henry  Lang,  Professor  of  Musicology  at 
Columbia  University  and  music  critic  for  the  New  York  Her- 
ald-Tribune; Dr.  Elmer  E.  Schattschneider,  Professor  of  Gov- 
ernment at  Wesleyan  University,  and  James  R.  Newman,  au- 
thor of  "The  World  of  Mathematics" 


MARCH    1957 


21 


The  Brown  Clubs  Report 


Through  the  Mid-West 

EARLY  IN  January,  Athletic  Director 
Paul  Mackesey  and  Football  Coach 
Al  Kelley  packed  their  bags  and  headed  for 
the  NCAA  Convention  in  St.  Louis,  visit- 
ing seven  Brown  Clubs  along  the  way.  Kel- 
ley joined  Mackesey  at  the  Club  meetings 
in  St.  Louis,  Detroit,  Chicago,  and  Pitts- 
burgh; in  addition,  the  Athletic  Director 
also  visited  Rochester,  Cleveland,  and  Syra- 
cuse. 

Mackesey  arrived  in  Rochester  Jan.  4  on 
his  way  to  St.  Louis  and  was  met  at  the 
airport  by  Dave  Flint  '42,  President  of  the 
Rochester  Brown  Club.  Later  in  the  eve- 
ning, a  dinner  was  held  at  the  University 
Club.  Following  the  meal,  Mackesey  spoke 
on  the  athletic  picture  at  Brown  and 
showed  color  films  of  the  Colgate  clash. 
Among  those  attending  the  meeting  was 
Dr.  Wilbur  E.  Saunders  '16,  President  of 
the  Colgate-Rochester  Divinity  School  and 
a  Trustee  of  Brown. 

The  next  morning,  Mackesey  left  for  the 
convention  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  was 
joined  by  Kelley.  While  there,  the  men 
were  entertained  by  President  Ed  Levis  '50 
of  the  St.  Louis  Brown  Club,  who  arranged 
a  cocktail  party  at  the  home  of  his  father. 
Chape  Newhard  '22  was  a  visitor  to  the 
affair. 

From  St.  Louis,  Brown's  two  representa- 
tives journeyed  to  Chicago,  arriving  on  Jan. 
1 1,  right  in  the  middle  of  the  furniture  con- 
vention. This  made  getting  a  room  a  seri- 
ous problem,  but  Ron  Kimball  '18  came  to 
the  rescue  and  helped  them  over  this  hur- 
dle. A  luncheon  at  the  Yacht  Club  and  a 
meeting  at  the  University  Club  were  the 
features  of  this  stop.  Several  sub-Freshmen 
were  invited  to  the  meeting. 

Detroit  was  next  on  the  schedule,  and  a 
pair  of  '25  Classmates,  Jack  Foley  and 
Bill  Browne,  met  Paul  and  Al  at  the  train. 
Jack,  who  is  looking  fine  after  being  ill  for 
a  spell,  was  the  host  at  his  home  Sunday 
evening,  Jan.  13.  The  next  day,  lunch  was 
held  at  the  University  Club,  followed  by  a 
trip  through  the  Chrysler  plant,  courtesy 
of  Ken  Brown  '22.  That  evening,  40  men 
turned  out  for  a  dinner  at  the  University 
Club.  The  list  included  a  number  of  Sub- 
Freshmen  and  their  fathers.  One  boy  and 
his  dad  came  80  miles  for  the  affair.  Frank 
Finney's  father  was  there  and  reported  that 
he  saw  his  son  play  in  the  first  and  last 
games  on  the  Brown  schedule,  Columbia 
and  Colgate. 

Sam  Flanders  '50  and  Harland  Bartlett 
'51  met  the  visitors  at  the  airport  in  Pitts- 
burgh and  took  them  to  dinner.  The  Uni- 
versity Club  was  the  scene  of  a  meeting 
that  night.  Marion  Cancelliere  '32  attended 
with  his  son.  Vic  Fusia,  former  Bear  back- 
field  coach  and  presently  on  the  University 
of  Pittsburgh  staff,  was  also  on  hand. 

While  Al  stayed  on  in  Pittsburgh,  Paul 
moved  on  to  Cleveland  on  Jan.  16.  The 
visit  was  short,  but  he  managed  to  have 
lunch  with  some  of  the  alumni  in  that  area 
at  the  University  Club.  Ed  O'Malley  '54 
did  the  honors  bringing  Paul  in,  and  Don 
Colo  '50,  Captain  of  the  Cleveland  Browns, 
drove  him  back  to  the  station  following  the 
meal. 

Later  the  same  day,  Jan.  16,  Paul  flew 
into  Syracuse.  Ducky  Drake  '24  met  him 
there  and  drove  him  to  the  dinner  at  the 


Rotary  Club.  The  next  day  there  was  a 
luncheon-meeting  at  the  Citizens  Club. 
Carl  Schuette,  line  coach,  met  Paul  there 
and  accompanied  him  back  to  Providence. 

The  Glee  Club  on  Tour 

Alumni  support  will  make  possible  a 
spring  trip  by  the  Brown  Glee  Club  this 
year,  with  concerts  scheduled  in  Manches- 
ter, Conn.,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  and 
Chappaqua,  N.  Y.  The  Club  is  directed  by 
Prof.  David  Laurent  '49,  assisted  by  Daniel 
Abbott  '54  and  managed  by  Thomas  F. 
Wiener  '57.  A  typical  program  includes 
compositions  ranging  from  Palestrina  to 
Philip  James,  with  groups  of  sea  chanteys, 


spirituals,  and  the  new  Ivy  League  medley 
by  Fenno  Heath. 

Two  of  the  concerts  are  sponsored  by 
the  Brown  Clubs  of  Philadelphia  (April  4) 
and  Washington  (April  5  at  the  National 
Press  Club).  The  first  concert,  in  Man- 
chester High  School  on  Wednesday,  April 
3,  will  be  under  the  auspices  of  the  Man- 
chester, Conn.,  Junior  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, of  which  Ted  LaBonne  '49  is  Presi- 
dent. He  is  also  President  of  the  Brown 
Club  in  Hockanum,  Conn.,  which  is  help- 
ing promote  the  evening,  along  with  alumni 
in  Hartford.  The  local  P.T.A.  is  the  spon- 
sor of  the  April  6  concert  in  the  Chap- 
paqua High  School,  with  Brown  men  lend- 
ing their  support. 

Four  of  the  Seven 

Attendance  at  the  January  meeting  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Associated 
Alumni  suggests  how  representative  and 
faithful  a  group  it  is.  Four  of  the  associa- 
tion's seven  Regional  Vice-Presidents  were 


BOWDOIN  COLLEGE  hos  received  a  new  portrait  of  Dr.  James  Stocy  Coles,  its  President.  The  work  of 
Sidney  E.  Dickinson,  it  will  hang  in  Hubbard  Hall,  the  College  Library,  along  with  Coles'  eight  prede- 
cessors. The  Bowdoin   President  was  formerly  Dean  of  the  College  at  Brown  University  and   Executive 

Officer  of  its  Chemistry  Department. 


BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


present:  Eugene  W.  O'Brien  '19  of  Atlanta; 
John  J.  Roe,  Jr.,  '27  of  Patchogue,  L.  I.; 
Ralph  Mullane  '19  of  Boston;  and  Stanley 
Mathes  '39  of  Providence. 

Plans  for  the  Advisory  Council  were  dis- 
cussed, and  the  Executive  Committee  per- 
formed its  function  as  a  Nominating  Com- 
mittee in  approving  a  preliminary  slate  of 
Alumni  Trustee  candidates  and  other  nomi- 
nations for  the  alumni  ballot. 

The  Executive  Committee  heard  Foster 
B.  Davis,  Jr.,  '39,  tell  of  activity  to  finance 
a  new  hockey  rink — he  is  heading  up  the 
selective  solicitation  for  it.  The  Committee 
voted  its  approval  and  encouragement  of 
the  project. 

President  Robert  H.  Goff  '24  announced 
that  Thomas  L.  Yatman  '43  had  accepted 
the  chairmanship  of  the  1957  Homecoming 
Committee.  Other  members  will  be:  Wil- 
liam H.  McCraw  '50,  William  P.  Sheffield, 
3rd,  '41,  and  Robert  W.  Thomas  '38. 

Publication  of  a  new  Alumni  Directory 
was  given  preliminary  consideration.  It 
would  be  the  first  such  publication  since 
the  Historical  Catalogue  of  1950  and  would 
be  less  comprehensive.  It  would  attempt  no 
biographies  but  possibly  list  only  alumni 
names  and  addresses  by  Classes,  with  sup- 
plementary regional  hsting  and  alphabeti- 
cal index.  The  project  still  lacks  final  ap- 
proval. 

Christmas  in  Pittsburgh 

The  Brown  Club  of  Western  Pennsyl- 
vania had  a  "bang-up"  party  Dec.  27  at  the 
University  Club,  with  members  of  the 
Brown  Club,  undergraduates,  their  fathers, 
and  some  young  men  from  the  local  high 
schools  who  are  interested  in  Brown  gath- 
ering for  a  luncheon-meeting. 

Dick  Gage  '51  led  off  by  welcoming  the 
guests  and  then  turned  the  meeting  over  to 
Tony  Waterman  '51,  Chairman  of  the  af- 
fair. Tony  told  us  of  the  death  of  Sam 
Arnold.  Everyone  there  was  shocked  to 
hear  the  news.  The  floor  was  then  turned 
over  to  Harlan  Bartlett  '51,  who  called  on 
two  of  the  undergraduates  to  give  their 
views  on  Brown  so  that  some  of  the  visitors 
could  get  a  better  idea  of  why  we  think 
Brown  is  so  outstanding.  Dick  Marcus  '57 
and  Stanley  Perl  '60  were  the  undergradu- 
ates who  talked.  Movies  showing  all  aspects 
of  Brown  life  followed  to  close  out  the 
evening. 

Those  attending  included:  J.  R.  Hutton 
'51,  R.  K.  Gage  '51,  L.  A.  Waterman  '51, 
B.  E.  Hamlett  '50,  W.  J.  Barton  '45,  D.  W. 
Baker  '42,  C.  Leveroni  '52,  P.  Lingham  '30, 
B.  Shanahan  '51,  A.  E.  Murphy  '50,  S. 
Flanders  '50,  J.  Caton  '51,  A.  Jeffers  '22, 
J.  Henderson  '46,  R.  Crosby  '52,  J.  Chesley 
'II,  J.  Fay  '54,  L.  Demmler  '31,  R.  Mont- 
gomery '57  and  father,  M.  Strem  '58  and 
father,  T.  Petracca  '60,  D.  Marcus  '57  and 
father,  E.  Tapper  '57,  S.  Perl  '60,  P. 
Herschfield  '60,  J.  Cerasoli  '57. 

HARLAN  A.  BARTLETT 


Detroit  Double-Header 

Frank  Finney,  star  quarterback  on  the 
Big  Brown  football  team  last  fall,  was  the 
guest  of  honor  Dec.  28  at  a  luncheon  held 
at  the  Detroit  University  Club.  Frank, 
whose  home  is  in  Royal  Oak,  Mich.,  dis- 
cussed the  past  pigskin  campaign  and  de- 
scribed some  of  the  games  in  detail. 

On  Jan.  14,  the  Detroit  University  Club 
was  the  scene  of  a  dinner-meeting  for  pros- 
pective students  and  their  fathers.  The 
guests  at  this  affair  were  Paul  Mackesey 
and  Al  Kelley.  Both  discussed  athletic  and 
scholastic    life    at    Brown,    and,    later,    Al 


A  Tribute  to  Arnold 

The  following  statement  was 
adopted  at  the  January  meeting  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  As- 
sociated Alumni: 

"Provost  Samuel  T.  Arnold  so 
lived  that  he  had  active  affiliation 
with  many  groups  in  the  University, 
community,  and  nation.  Each  was 
honored  by  his  fellowship  and  better 
for  his  service. 

"His  relationship  with  the  alumni 
of  Brown  University,  however,  was 
something  special.  They  acknowl- 
edged his  unselfish  leadership,  his 
thoughtful  counsel,  and  the  joy  of  a 
friendship  shared.  He  brought  com- 
panionship to  working  together  and 
inspiration  in  the  common  cause  by 
the  example  of  his  devotion. 

"None  have  been  in  a  better  posi- 
tion than  the  alumni  to  know  the  ex- 
tent and  quality  of  his  contribution 
to  the  University.  Members  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Associ- 
ated Alumni,  meeting  in  Providence 
on  January  18,  1957,  have  a  sharp, 
fond  awareness  of  his  loss.  They 
spread  upon  the  minutes  this  memo- 
rial statement  to  suggest  a  vast 
alumni  appreciation  of  Samuel  T. 
Arnold  and  the  sympathy  they  hum- 
bly offer  to  his  family." 


showed  color  films  of  the  clash  with  Col- 
gate. 

Alumni  present  for  these  two  get-to- 
gethers included:  Octave  Beauvais  '18,  Ken 
Brown  '22,  Bill  Browne  '25,  Jim  Ely  '40, 
Jack  Foley  '25,  Bob  Foley  '56,  Joe  Freed- 
man  '26,  Dick  Grout  '42,  Jack  Hocking 
'46,  Marvin  Perils  '47,  Martin  Rice  '25, 
Jack  Sanders  '26,  Carlton  Scott  '24,  Dick 
Selleck  '51,  Ed  Walmsley  '22,  and  John 
WelchH  '50. 

JACK  HOCKING  '46 

A  Chicago  Directory 
Vice-President  Robert  O.  Case  '44  is  in 
the  process  of  compiling  a  new  directory 
for  the  Brown  University  Club  of  Chicago. 
He  has  circularized  the  men  in  the  area 
asking  for  information  to  be  used.  "There 
has  been  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  pub- 
lishing the  directory,"  Case  noted,  pointing 
out  that  the  last  one  had  an  "enthusiastic 
reception."  However,  that  was  back  in 
1949. 

Whalers  Pick  Young 

Attorney  Howard  W.  Young  '44  was 
elected  President  of  the  Brown  Club  of 
New  Bedford  Jan.  28  in  a  meeting  held  at 
the  New  Bedford  Hotel.  Other  officers 
elected  include:  Vice-President — James  P. 
Lawton;  Secretary-Treasurer — Jack  M.  Ro- 
senberg. 

Al  Kelley  and  Charlie  Markham  of  the 
football  staff  were  guests  of  the  Club.  Both 
spoke  briefly  on  the  football  situation  on 
the  Hill  and  then  showed  color  films  of  the 
sensational  triumph  over  Colgate. 

Those  attending  the  meeting  were  as 
follows:  Elmer  P.  Wright  '21,  Abel  Gon- 
salves  '50,  the  Rev.  James  V.  Claypool 
'22,  Howard  W.  Young  '44,  George  R. 
Dewhurst  '33,  Jack  M.  Rosenberg  '42, 
George  H.  Young  '23,  John  Garcia  '28, 
James  P.  Lawton  '31,  John  B.  Riddock 
'18,  John  D.  Wilson  '51,  Howard  C.  Ren- 


free  '42,  Paul  S.  Kramer  '42,  Chester  M. 
Downing  '18,  Leon  Sadow  '48,  Leonard  D. 
LeValley  '39,  and  Nathan  S.  Ellis  '50. 

JACK  M.  ROSENBERG  '42 

New  York  Activity 
The  New  York  Brown  Club's  first  af- 
fair of  the  new  year  was  a  Faculty  Night 
Jan.  17,  with  Prof.  Walter  J.  Wilson  of  the 
Brown  Biology  Department  the  guest 
speaker.  Professor  Wilson  talked  on  some 
of  the  aspects  of  Federal  Government 
grants  to  education  and  to  research  facil- 
ities at  various  universities,  and,  especially, 
to  Brown. 

The  first  monthly  luncheon  of  the  year 
was  held  Jan.  22  in  the  Landon  Room  of 
the  Club.  Arch  Murray,  staff  sportswriter 
for  the  A'eii'  York  Post,  was  the  guest 
speaker  at  this  get-together.  Arch  has  been 
very  pro-Brown,  pro-AI  Kelley,  and  pro-Ivy 
League  in  his  newspaper  articles,  and  he 
was  warmly  received.  He  gave  his  views  and 
impressions  on  Ivy  League  football  and 
took  part  in  a  question-and-answer  period 
with  Club  members. 

Plans  are  well  under  way  for  the  89th 
Annual  Dinner,  April  23.  We  are  fortunate 
in  having  Bill  Bloomingdale  '35  as  our 
Dinner  Chairman  again  this  year.  We  all 
had  such  a  fine  time  at  Delmonico's  last 
year  that  the  Committee  has  decided  to 
hold  the  1957  dinner  at  the  siame  place. 
Another  steak  dinner  is  in  prospect!  Those 
who  couldn't  make  it  a  year  ago  will  now 
have  an  opportunity  to  catch  up!  President 
Keeney  will  be  the  guest  speaker,  and  he 
will  talk  about  Brown's  Bicentennial,  which 
will  be  celebrated  in  1964,  and  other  future 
plans  of  the  University. 

CHUCK  BRADLEY   '50 


Next  Fall's 
Round  Robin 

Ivy  Football  for  '57 

Again  in  1957,  Brovm  and  Columbia 
will  open  the  Ivy  League  season  by  them- 
selves on  the  last  Saturday  of  September. 
Again,  they  will  face  non-Ivy  opponents  in 
the  last  two  weeks  of  November  while  the 
other  six  wind  up  their  campaigns.  The  full 
roster  of  round-robin  dates  follows: 

Sept.  28 — Columbia  at  Brown. 

Oct.  5— Brown  at  Yale,  Cornell  at  Har- 
vard, Dartmouth  at  Pennsylvania,  Prince- 
ton at  Columbia. 

Oct.  12 — Brown  at  Dartmouth,  Colum- 
bia at  Yale,  Pennsylvania  at  Princeton. 

Oct.  19 — Pennsylvania  at  Brown  (Home- 
coming), Columbia  at  Harvard,  Yale  at 
Cornell. 

Oct.  26 — Cornell  at  Princeton,  Dart- 
mouth at  Harvard. 

Nov.  2 — Princeton  at  Brown,  Columbia 
at  Cornell,  Dartmouth  at  Yale,  Harvard 
at  Pennsylvania. 

Nov.  9 — Brown  at  Cornell,  Dartmouth 
at  Columbia,  Princeton  at  Harvard,  Yale  at 
Pennsylvania. 

Nov.  16 — Brown  at  Harvard,  Cornell  at 
Dartmouth,  Pennsylvania  at  Columbia, 
Yale  at  Princeton. 

Nov.  23 — Dartmouth  at  Princeton,  Har- 
vard at  Yale. 

Nov.  28 — Cornell  at  Pennsylvania. 


MARCH    1957 


23 


The  Winter  Varsities 


THE  BEARS  HAD 
THEIR  MOMENTS 


Reversal  on  the  Court 

A  HALE  AND  HARDY  Joe  Tebo,  playing 
once  again  on  two  sound  legs,  led  one 
of  the  most  thrilling  performances  seen  at 
Marvel  Gym  in  many  a  year  Jan.  31  as 
Coach  Stan  Ward's  Bruins  roared  from  be- 
hind to  defeat  Harvard  58-56  in  overtime 
and  snap  a  six-game  losing  streak.  This  win 
for  Ward's  warriors,  the  highlight  of  the 
first  half  of  the  campaign,  was  a  most  start- 
ling reversal  of  form.  The  Crimson  had 
whipped  Brown  by  45  points,  92-47,  earlier 
in  the  season. 

The  triumph  proved  a  tonic  for  the  Bears 
for  they  followed  it  up  the  next  night  with 
a  79-61  decision  over  a  good  Tufts  team. 
In  other  games  since  the  last  report,  the 
Bruins  were  defeated  by  Colby  (76-56), 
Yale  (91-67  and  84-53),  and  Dartmouth 
(93-56).  The  season's  record  stood  at  four 
wins  and  nine  losses,  with  a  2-4  Ivy  mark 
earning  a  fifth  place  tie  in  the  League  at 
the  start  of  February. 

Two  free  throws  by  Harvard's  Dick 
Woolston  with  15  seconds  to  play  gave  the 
Crimson  a  52-48  lead  and  made  Brown's 
chances  appear  slim.  Then,  Tebo  and  Cap- 
tain John  Lyden  went  to  work.  First,  Tebo 
hit  with  a  layup  at  the  10-second  mark  to 
make  the  score  52-50.  Then,  when  a  Har- 
vard guard  panicked  and  uncorked  a  wild 
and  unnecessary  pass,  Lyden  intercepted 
at  mid-court  and  drove  in  for  the  tying 
basket  with  only  five  seconds  left  to  play. 
This  was  Lyden's  only  basket  of  the  night, 
but  it  may  turn  out  to  be  his  most  impor- 
tant hoop  of  the  season. 

The  Crowd  Helped  Out 

The  enthusiastic  crowd,  which  had 
"picked  up"  the  Brown  team  several  times 
earlier  in  the  game  when  Harvard  had 
pulled  ahead,  flowed  out  on  the  court,  and 
it  took  several  minutes  to  clear  the  floor 
for  the  five-minute  overtime  period.  Coach 
Ward  later  termed  this  the  most  encourag- 
ing display  of  student  enthusiasm  he  has 
seen  since  coming  to  Brown  three  years 
ago. 

Jerry  Alaimo,  who  played  a  strong  game 
both  offensively  and  defensively,  moved  the 
Bruins  ahead  in  the  overtime  with  a  hook, 
but  Harvard  came  right  back  for  another 
tie.  Two  foul  shots  by  Brown's  Jim  Wright 
were  countered  by  a  pair  of  free  tosses  by 
the  Crimson  making  the  score  56-56. 

With  five  seconds  left,  Lyden  passed  in 
to  Tebo  from  behind  the  Harvard  basket. 
Little  Joe  dribbled  a  few  steps  and  cut 
loose  with  one  of  his  favorite  jump  shots. 
The  swish  of  the  ball  through  the  nets  was 
followed  almost  immediately  by  the  final 
buzzer.  Again  the  crowd  swarmed  on  to  the 
court,  surrounding  Coach  Ward,  Tebo,  Ly- 
den, and  the  entire  Brown  squad.  There 
was  little  doubt  that  this  was  a  cherished 
triumph. 

The  victory  didn't  come  easy.  After  lead- 
ing 28-27  at  the  half.  Brown  saw  its  lead 
melt  away  as  the  Crimson  stormed  back 


after  intermission  to  rack  up  nine  straight 
points  for  a  36-28  advantage.  Here,  Alaimo 
tossed  in  nine  of  his  14  points  to  help  the 
Bruins  pull  back  into  a  44-40  lead.  Alaimo 
also  was  a  thorn  in  John  Harvard's  hide 
with  18  rebounds,  high  for  the  night. 

Tebo's  21  points  paced  the  Brown  attack, 
and  the  scrappy  little  guard  set  up  as  many 
baskets  as  he  scored  with  his  deft  passes. 
Al  Poulsen,  6:8  Sophomore  center,  scored 
eight  points  and  used  his  long  arms  to  com- 
pletely foil  Harvard's  attempts  to  crack  the 
Brown  zone  by  driving  through  the  middle. 

The  One-Two  Punch 

Tebo  and  Alaimo  put  on  a  two-man 
scoring  show  to  topple  Tufts  almost  single- 
handed.  Tebo  hit  for  37  points  and  Alaimo 
had  30,  accounting  for  67  of  Brown's  79 
points.  Wright,  with  two  baskets,  and  Ly- 
den and  Ron  Harrison  with  one  each,  were 
the  only  other  Bears  able  to  score  from  the 
floor. 

The  Jumbos,  coached  by  former  Bruin 
star  Woody  Grimshaw  '47,  made  it  close 
during  most  of  the  first  half,  at  which  point 
Brown  led  37-31.  However,  his  thin  squad 
tired  later  in  the  game,  and  the  Bruins  won 
going  away,  79-61.  Tebo's  37  points  came 
on  15  baskets  and  seven  foul  shots.  Alaimo 
had  nine  hoops  and  12  points  from  the  foul 
line. 

Incidentally,  Alaimo's  30  points  against 
Tufts  raised  his  Varsity  total  to  an  even 
500  for  a  year  and  a  half  of  action.  Tebo 
has  671  points  in  the  same  period,  and  both 
appear  certain  of  cracking  the  select 
"1,000"  circle,  reached  so  far  by  but  two 
Bruins,  Lou  Murgo  '54  (1147),  and  Grim- 
shaw (1010).  Brown's  other  top  scorers  to 
date  have  been  Ed  Tooley  '55  (886),  Harry 
Piatt  '40  (866),  Moe  Mahoney  '50  (828), 
and  Fred  Kozak  '50  (709). 

Getting  some  scoring  help  from  the  rest 
of  his  lineup  was  Coach  Ward's  main  prob- 
lem as  he  prepared  to  face  the  second  half 
of  the  season.  When  two  men,  in  a  high 
scoring  game,  score  67  of  a  team's  79 
points,  the  overall  team  picture  is  not 
healthy.  On  the  other  hand.  reaMzing  how 
important  these  two  men  are  to  the  success 
of  the  team  helps  to  explain  the  reason  for 
some  of  Brown's  troubles  during  the  period 
that  Tebo  was  nursing  his  bad  ankle.  It  so 
happened  that  during  this  period,  the 
Bruins  were  forced  to  play  three  of  the 
toughest  games  on  the  schedule,  one  against 
Dartmouth  and  two  against  Yale. 

To  give  you  an  idea  of  how  the  scoring 
has  gone,  here  is  a  list  of  the  average  per 
game  of  Brown's  top  seven  men:  Alaimo 
16.0,  Tebo  13.0,  Poulsen  6.8,  Lyden  5.8, 
Wright  4.0.  Wadsworth  4.7.  and  Bogar  3.8. 

The  Freshman  quintet  put  together  a  win 
streak  of  five  straight  with  decisions  over 
Worcester  Academy  (84-73),  Dean  Jr. 
(82-76),  Leicester  jr.  (109-53),  Harvard 
(72-68),  and  Quonset  Pt.  (92-66).  The 
season's  record  was  8-2  at  the  end  of  Jan- 
uary. Bob  Read  was  leading  the  team  in 


scoring  with  a  17.3  average,  while  the  other 
men  in  the  top  five  scored  as  follows:  Cliff 
Ehrlich  14.3,  Al  Diussa  12.1,  Jack  Belli- 
vance  11.9,  and  Bob  Walsh  6.6. 

Records  in  the  Tank 

Any  swimmer  who  can  establish  new 
records  in  each  of  his  first  four  outings  has 
to  be  considered  news.  Brown  has  such  a 
lad  in  the  person  of  Barr  Clayson.  Al- 
though the  team  had  only  a  2-2  mark  early 
in  the  year,  it  had  garnered  a  fair  share  of 
the  headlines  due  to  this  Junior  backstroke 
star  from  Pittsfield.  One  of  the  most  un- 
usual aspects  of  the  story  is  that  Clayson 
came  to  Brown  noted  not  so  much  for  his 
work  in  the  tank  as  for  his  prowess  on  the 
gridiron.  However,  when  an  injury  in  his 
Freshman  season  sidelined  him  perma- 
nently from  football  he  turned  to  his  second 
love,  swimming. 

Coach  Joe  Watmough  is  one  man  who  is 
happy  about  this  change  in  plans.  Used  as 
a  "fill"  last  season  in  a  variety  of  events, 
Clayson  proved  a  valuable  man.  Then,  late 
in  the  season,  he  started  to  get  "hot."  He 
began  to  show  all  manner  of  potential, 
especially  in  the  backstroke  event.  Wat- 
mough was  so  impressed  that  he  decided  to 
work  with  the  youngster  exclusively  on  the 
backstroke  this  season. 

This  concentration  has  paid  off.  Swim- 
ming in  the  Rhode  Island  AAA  prior  to  the 
start  of  the  season,  Clayson  turned  in  a 
time  of  2:21.8  for  the  200-yard  backstroke. 
This  set  a  new  Brown  record.  Against  Co- 
lumbia, swimming  in  the  Colgate  Hoyt 
Pool,  he  was  clocked  at  2:20.2,  for  a  new 
Brown  record  and  a  new  pool  record.  The 
next  meet  was  at  Amherst,  where  he 
dropped  his  time  there  to  2:19,  for  a  new 
Brown  record  and  a  new  Amherst  pool  rec- 
ord. Against  Penn,  at  home,  he  made  the 
distance  in  2:19.6.  This  was  slightly  off  his 
best  time  but  good  enough  to  set  a  new 
Brown  pool  record.  Then,  against  Navy,  he 
again  made  it  in  2:19.6 — the  first  occasion 
all  season  in  which  he  didn't  establish  a 
new  record. 

It  should  also  be  added  that  he  broke  an- 
other Brown  mark  this  season.  Swimming 
the  100-yard  backstroke  in  the  New  Eng- 
land AAU  he  hit  the  finish  line  in  1:02.5, 
which,  incidentally,  was  also  a  new 
NEAAU  mark.  Needless  to  say,  Clayson  is 
undefeated.  Coach  Watmough  believes  that 
he  is  good  enough  to  get  down  near  2:15 
for  the  200-yard  backstroke.  If  he  can,  this 
time  would  put  him  in  the  limelight  nation- 
ally. A  very  bright  future  would  appear  to 
lie  ahead  in  the  tank  for  this  husky  Junior 
— and  all  because  of  a  football  injury! 

While  on  the  subject  of  records,  the  con- 
tribution of  Al  Chapman,  another  Junior, 
can't  be  overlooked.  He  also  was  unde- 
feated in  the  first  four  meets.  He's  been 
concentrating  in  the  200-yard  butterfly  this 
season  and  has  set  a  new  Brown  pool  rec- 
ord of  2:35.2  for  that  event. 

■After  defeating  Columbia  in  the  opening 
meet,  the  Bruins  suffered  a  48-38  defeat  at 
the  hands  of  Amherst,  defeated  Penn  55-31, 
and  lost  to  Navy  45-41  in  the  final  event. 
Brown  led  the  undefeated  Middies  41-38 
going  into  the  400-yard  freestyle  relay,  last 
event  of  the  meet.  In  the  400-yard  medley 
relay,  the  Bear  team  of  Clayson,  Bill  Rid- 
dle. Capt.  .\\  Chapman,  and  Dave  Graham 
bettered  the  old  Brown  record  of  4:15  as 
they  got  down  to  4:03.9.  This  was  also  a 
new  New  England  Intercollegiate  Swim- 
ming .Association  record:  the  old  mark. 
4:06.3.  was  held  by  the  University  of  Con- 
necticut. 


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The  swimming  situation  at  Brown  is 
rather  rosy.  There  is  only  one  Senior  on 
this  year's  team,  Ira  Levin.  All  the  other 
men  are  expected  back  ne.\t  season.  In  addi- 
tion, the  Cubs  should  provide  several  able 
performers.  Chief  among  these  is  Ed 
Nicholson,  6:1,  172-pound  star  from  Grosse 
Pointe,  Mich.,  performing  in  the  sprints, 
where  the  Varsity  is  weakest.  He  has  done 
the  50-yard  freestyle  in  24:3  and  the  100 
in  55:7,  both  times  quite  a  bit  faster  than 
Varsity  men  have  been  able  to  post.  Wat- 
mough  believes  he  will  do  much  better  next 
year. 

The  Freshmen  had  a  3-1  record,  with 
wins  over  Dean  Academy  (51-25),  St. 
George  (47-29),  and  Moses  Brown  (47- 
30),  and  a  47-30  loss  to  La  Salle  Academy. 

Outmanned  on  the  Ice 

The  return  to  action  of  Senior  Bill 
Sepe  along  with  Juniors  Paul  Prindle  and 
Ed  Allard  brightened  the  hockey  picture  on 
the  Hill  just  as  the  Bruin  skaters  were 
about  to  face  the  bulk  of  the  Ivy  schedule 
in  the  second  half  of  the  season.  However, 
on  the  debit  side  was  the  temporary  loss  of 
Sophomore  find  Dick  Haskell. 

Since  the  last  report,  the  Bears  won  one 
game  and  lost  three.  They  defeated  Tufts 
(5-4)  and  lost  to  Dartmouth  (5-3),  Boston 
University  (9-2),  and  Harvard  (7-0).  The 
sensational  play  of  Junior  Harry  Batchel- 
der,  in  the  nets,  and  Rod  Dashnaw,  at 
wing,  were  the  highlights  of  the  season. 

Dashnaw  led  the  team  in  scoring  with  19 
points  on  1 1  goals  and  eight  assists.  Mak- 
ing his  job  much  tougher  was  the  fact  that 
he  was  double-teamed  in  every  game.  The 
opposition  knew  that  he  carried  Brown's 
main  offensive  hope  while  on  the  ice  and 
set  the  defenses  accordingly.  Haskell,  play- 
ing on  the  second  line,  had  been  the  team's 
second  high  man. 

In  the  goal,  Batchelder  grew  steadily  in 
stature  despite  the  fact  that  several  large 
scores  were  run  up  against  him.  His  play 
drew  comments  from  coaches  around  the 
circuit  and  from  the  fans  alike.  He  has 
been  at  a  disadvantage,  however,  in  that  he 
is  playing  this  season  on  a  team  that  is 
not  blessed  with  strong  defensemen.  De- 
spite this  fact,  he  has  allowed  an  average  of 
but  five  goals  a  game.  With  a  less  capable 
man  in  the  nets,  that  figure  might  well  have 
been  doubled. 

The  inexperience  and  weakness  of  the 
defensemen  has  also  been  felt  on  the  at- 
tack. None  of  the  combinations  used  by 
Coach  Fullerton  has  been  able  to  feed  out 
of  the  defensive  zone.  In  addition  to  mak- 
ing the  defensive  position  of  a  team  pre- 
carious, such  an  inability  is  a  heavy  drag 
on  the  off'ense. 

A  pleasant  surprise  for  Fullerton  this 
winter  was  the  way  in  which  three  of  his 
Sophomore  forwards,  Haskell,  Art  Cleary, 
and  Don  Hebert,  came  from  nowhere  to 
become  better  than  average  hockey  players. 
These  men  played  on  a  Freshman  team 
that  won  only  one  game  in  12  starts.  How- 
ever, they  improved  rapidly  under  Fuller- 
ton's  tutelage  and  were  just  starting  to  click 
as  a  strong  second  line  when  Haskell  be- 
came ineligible. 

The  Cubs  had  posted  a  5-4  record.  A  3-2 
win  over  the  powerful  Harvard  sextet  high- 
lighted the  campaign.  Tufts  was  also  de- 
feated 5-2,  while  recent  losses  were  suf- 
fered at  the  hands  of  Boston  University 
(6-3)  and  Harvard  (5-1).  Dave  Kelley, 
fast-skating  wing,  was  the  leading  Fresh- 
man scorer  in  New  England  early  in  Feb- 
ruary with  II  goals  and  13  assists  for  24 
points.  Ed  Soares,  defenseman,  showed 
signs  of  becoming  a  future  star. 


PHENOMENAL   PLAY   by   Goalie   Harry   Batchelder   '58   has  featured   the   Brown   hockey  season.   He 

likely  candidate  for  all-star   honors. 


A  Good  Wre.stling  Start 

Winners  over  Penn  (27-5)  and  Yale 
(16-12),  the  Brown  matmen  climbed  into 
a  tie  with  Cornell  for  the  Ivy  League  [ead 
in  early  February,  with  four  important 
matches  ahead  against  the  Big  Red,  Har- 
vard, Princeton,  and  Columbia.  The  over- 
all record  was  3-1. 

Against  the  Quakers,  Coach  Anderton 
and  the  Bruins  were  forced  to  give  away 
five  points  at  123  on  a  forfeit  for  not  en- 
tering a  man.  But.  from  there  on.  the  meet 
was  all  Brown.  John  Cumniings  in  the  137- 
pound  class  and  heavyweight  Ed  Eastman 
both  pinned  their  opponents.  George 
Seaver  won  at  130  pounds  by  default,  and 
Frank  Smith,  Pete  Roche,  Lou  Winner,  and 
John  Alexander  won  on  decisions. 

Prior  to  the  Yale  meet,  the  Bruins  lost 
the  services  of  Ed  Eastman  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  season.  To  fill  his  shoes. 
Coach  Anderton  called  on  Gene  Roberts, 
a  6:0,  177-pound  Sophomore  from  Bethle- 
hem, Pa.  The  decision  proved  a  wise  one. 
The  Bruins  went  into  the  final  event  with  a 
scant  13-12  lead.  However,  Roberts  came 
through  in  his  first  Varsity  match  with  a 
6-2  decision  over  Yale's  Mike  Schoeltle  to 
give  the  Bears  the  meet  16-12.  Again, 
Brown  was  forced  to  forfeit  at  I  23  pounds, 
thus  giving  the  Elis  an  automatic  5-0  lead. 


Co-Captain  Frank  Smith,  in  winning  an 
8-2  decision  over  Dick  Hepner  of  Yale  at 
147  pounds,  raised  his  Varsity  record  at 
Brown  to  17-1-1  for  two  and  one  half  sea- 
sons. He  lost  his  second  match  as  a  Sopho- 
more to  Columbia  and  was  tied  last  season 
in  the  Cornell  meet.  Other  Bruins  unde- 
feated this  year  are  Sophomore  George 
Seaver  at  130  pounds.  Senior  John  Alex- 
ander at  177  pounds,  and,  of  course,  Rob- 
erts in  the  heavyweight  class. 

The  Cub  matmen,  experiencing  a  rough 
season,  stood  0-3  after  meeting  Springfield, 
Wesleyan,  and  Exeter  Academy.  The  squad 
is  thin. 


Sports  Shorts 

PAUL  Mackesey,  Brown's  Director  of 
Athletics,  last  January  was  named  to 
the  Eligibility  Committee  of  the  National 
Collegiate  Association  at  the  organization's 
51st  annual  convention  in  St.  Louis.  He 
has  served  on  the  NCAA  Council  as  the 
District  I  representative  and  has  been  Vice- 
President  of  the  District  for  several  years. 
Mackesey's  face  was  really  red  the  night 
of  Brown's  exciting  overtime  victory  over 
Harvard.  You  see,  with  the  Crimson  lead- 
ing 52-48  and  only  15  seconds  left  on  the 


MARCH    1957 


25 


clock,  Paul  figured  he'd  beat  the  crowd  out 
of  the  Gym.  So,  he  quietly  slipped  out  of 
his  seat,  went  to  his  office,  put  on  his  hat 
and  coat,  and  prepared  to  leave.  But  then 
he  stopped  and  began  to  wonder  why  the 
crowd  hadn't  started  to  file  out.  So,  he 
went  back  into  the  basketball  arena,  heard 
the  uproar,  saw  the  scoreboard,  which  read 
52-52.  Although  he  was  thus  on  hand  when 
Tebo  came  through  with  his  game-winning 
hoop,  Paul  was  still  a  bit  sore  at  himself 
for  missing  one  of  the  greatest  finishes  in 
Brown's  basketball  history. 

The  swimming  meet  between  Brown  and 
Navy  brought  veteran-coach  against  former 
pupil.  Bruin  coach  Joe  Watmough  helped 
develop  John  Higgins,  Navy  mentor,  into 
a  swimmer  of  national  prominence  when 
the  latter  was  a  youngster  in  boy's  club  cir- 


cles and  at  Central  High  School  in  Provi- 
dence. Higgins  was  a  member  of  the  1936 
Olympic  team  just  after  leaving  high  school 
and  was  an  Ail-American  swimmer  at  Ohio 
State  in  1938-39-40. 

Coach  Ivan  Fuqua's  mile  relay  team  put 
on  a  fine  show  in  the  Millrose  Games  at 
Boston  but  ran  second  to  Bates.  They  also 
ran  well  in  the  Washington  Star  Meet,  fin- 
ishing third  behind  Maryland  and  Navy, 
and  ahead  of  Duke  and  Virginia. 

Also  on  the  track  front,  Paul  Choquette, 
a  Freshman,  related  to  the  Gilbanes,  placed 
fifth  in  the  16-pound  shot-put  in  the  BAA 
Meet  at  Boston.  Competing  against  a  60- 
foot  shot-putter.  Ken  Bantum  of  Man- 
hattan, for  the  first  time  in  his  life,  he 
turned  in  the  best  performance  of  his  ca- 
reer, 49:7.  (Bantum  won  it  at  55:2.) 


Brunonians  Far  and  Near 

EDITED   BY  JAY   BARRY   '50 


1887 

SENATOR  Theodore  Francis  Green,  in 
addition  to  all  his  new  duties  as  Chair- 
man of  the  Senate  Foreign  Relations  Com- 
mittee, has  been  lending  a  hand  to  the 
drive  aimed  at  keeping  the  Washington 
Senators  baseball  club  in  Washington. 
During  the  past  two  years,  there  has  been 
some  talk  of  moving  the  club  to  the  West 
Coast.  Recently,  Senator  Green  was  host 
to  some  40  Washington  business  men,  club 
officers,  and  players  at  a  Capitol  Hill 
luncheon — one  of  a  series  being  held  to 
promote  ticket  sales  and  forestall  any  fur- 
ther talk  of  the  American  League  club 
moving  West. 

1901 

Judge  Rufus  H.  Cook,  who  has  been 
practicing  law  in  Northampton,  Mass., 
since  1901,  tendered  his  resignation  as  a 
Special  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court  in  late 
December.  He  had  been  serving  the  four 
Western  Counties  of  the  State  since  1923. 

1902 

Arthur  W.  Pinkham,  the  "head  man"  at 
the  world-famous  Lydia  E.  Pinkham  Medi- 
cine Company,  celebrated  his  77th  birth- 
day Dec.  9.  Following  a  pattern  of  his  two 
preceding  birthdays,  his  family  took  no- 
tice of  his  new  interest  as  a  painter.  Two 
years  ago,  his  book  "Reminiscences"  was 
announced,  and,  last  year,  he  revealed  him- 
self to  be  something  of  a  sculptor. 

Brad  Stephens  is  still  doing  a  fine  job 
as  Editor  of  Direct  Advertising,  the  impos- 
ing and  beautifully  illustrated  quarterly 
publication  of  the  Paper  Makers  Advertis- 
ing Association.  His  office  is  at  581  Boyls- 
ton  St.,  Boston.  Brad  says  he  will  be  on 
hand  for  our  55th  reunion  next  June. 

The  Viking  Press  announces  it  is  bring- 
ing out  a  reprint  of  the  biography  of  "Hart 
Crane,  The  Life  of  an  American  Poet"  by 
Philip  Horlon,  published  in  1937  by  W.  W. 
Norton  Company.  This  is  being  published 
in  the  paperback  Compass  edition  as  well 
as  in  cloth  binding,  thus  making  it  more 
available  for  school  and  college  use.  The 
New  York  Times  refers  to  it  as  "a  model 
biography,  a  great  one  on  Crane,  a  great 
one  in  itself."  Morton,  the  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Everett  J.  Horton,  is  Senior  Editor  of 
The  Reporter  magazine  in  New  York  City. 


1905 

What  does  the  High  Sheriff  of  Provi- 
dence County  do  on  Inauguration  Day 
when  he  doesn't  know  which  of  two  can- 
didates for  Governor  is  to  be  inaugurated? 
Michael  F.  Costello  faced  this  problem  in 
Rhode  Island  Jan.  1  when  the  State  Su- 
preme Court  was  still  trying  to  decide  on 
the  legal  issues  involving  Governor  Rob- 
erts and  the  Republican  candidate,  Christo- 
pher Del  Sesto.  The  final  result  wasn't 
announced  until  after  3  o'clock  on  Inaugu- 
ration afternoon.  Ordinarily,  Sheriff  Cos- 
tello spends  several  months  planning  this 
ceremony,  including,  of  course,  his  procla- 
mation. Not  knowing  whom  he  would  pro- 
claim, Costello  had  said  with  utter  candor, 
"I'm  stuck."  Normally,  his  preparations 
proceed  with  the  "advice  and  approval  of 
the  Governor-elect." 

The  Rev.  Hinson  V.  Howlett  and  Mrs. 
Howlett  were  honored  Dec.  30  at  a  fare- 
well reception  in  the  vestry  of  the  Phentx 
Baptist  Church,  West  Warwick,  R.  I.,  from 
which  he  retired.  Gifts  presented  included 
a  television  set  and  a  purse.  Representatives 
of  the  community  and  the  Rhode  Island 
Baptist  State  Convention  brought  greetings 
and- best  wishes. 

1906 

From  a  card  forwarded  by  George  Shor 
in  Naples,  Fla.,  there  are  indications  that 
this  much-traveled  member  of  '06  again  is 
on  his  winter  circuit.  After  a  few  weeks  in 
Florida,  he  intends  to  move  on  to  Mexico. 
From  there,  he  doubtless  will  go  on  for  a 
visit  with  his  son  in  California  before  re- 
turning East,  in  time  for  our  51st  Reunion, 
we  hope. 

Oscar  Rackle  reports  a  safe  arrival  on 
the  Coast  after  another  cross-country  drive 
in  his  Mercury.  It  was  a  pleasure  to  receive 
Christmas  Greetings  from  him. 

Walter  Briggs  (The  Honorable  Judge 
Walter  A.  Briggs)  has  retired  from  the 
bench  and  the  Fourth  District  Bar  Associa- 
tion. A  group  of  his  friends  gave  a  testi- 
monial dinner  in  his  honor  recently  at  the 
Masonic  Temple  in  Attleboro,  Mass.  In 
the  next  issue  of  the  Brown  Alumni 
Monthly  we  shall  try  and  provide  some  of 
the  details  of  this  event.  Walter's  many 
friends  in  '06  wish  him  long  life,  excellent 
health,  and  a  large  measure  of  the  good 
things  that  will  be  his. 


ZECHARIAH  CHAFEE,  JR.,  07  died  of  a  heart 
attack  on  Feb.  8.  Brown's  memorial  service  the 
next  doy  will  be  described  in  our  next  issue. 
Portrait  is  that  of  the  Harvard  Law  School. 


1907 

Samuel  A.  Steere,  Vice-President,  Tex- 
tile Mills,  Goodyear  Tire  &  Rubber  Co., 
retired  Feb.  1  after  an  outstanding  career 
with  Goodyear,  beginning  in  1922.  Sam's 
forward  progress,  his  achievements  in  his 
special  textile  field,  have  the  admiration  of 
all  classmates,  who  recognize  his  abilities 
and  appreciate  his  modesty.  His  mail  ad- 
dress is  2831  Shade  Road,  Akron  13,  O. 

Charles  R.  Stark  Jr.'s  new  book,  "The 
Bering  Sea  Eagle,"  has  had  its  publication 
date  set  as  March  22  by  Caxton  Printers, 
Ltd.  Charlie  and  Mrs.  Stark  are  now  plan- 
ning to  leave  Spokane  in  mid-April,  make 
several  stops  along  the  way,  then,  with 
Providence  as  base,  visit  various  parts  of 
New  England  before  Commencement.  "I 
have  agreed  to  take  over  a  public  relations 
job,"  Charlie  wrote,  "and  that  will  make 
it  necessary  for  me  to  be  back  in  Spokane 
by  June  10." 

Norman  F.  MacGregor's  address  is  said 
to  be  St.  Andrews  East,  Quebec.  Your  Sec- 
retary has  written  MacGregor  for  verifica- 
tion. 

Bob  Curley,  who  fled  from  Biddeford, 
Me.,  as  soon  as  cold  weather  struck,  has 
been  spending  the  winter  in  Mesa,  Ariz., 
where  his  address  is  1055  West  Main  St. 
Bob  has  our  thanks  for  sending  the  De- 
cember issue  of  Arizona  Highways,  an  un- 
usually beautiful  magazine. 

William  E.  Bright  was  re-elected  Presi- 
dent and  a  Director  of  Green  Ridge  Bank, 
Scranton,  Pa.,  at  the  annual  meeting  in 
January.  Bill  is  already  in  contact  with  the 
Rev.  Levi  Hoftman  about  coming  to  our 
50th  Reunion. 

Myron  S.  Curtis  and  Mrs.  Curtis  have 
been  in  Santa  Barbara,  Calif.,  but  will  re- 
turn to  Cleveland  early  this  month.  "I  have 
a  system,"  Myron  wrote,  "whereby  I  dic- 
tate 'flying  saucers'  out  here  in  Santa  Bar- 
bara, send  them  back  to  Cleveland;  and 
my  secretary  transcribes  them.  So  that's 
why  you  get  envelopes  with  the  Cleveland 
postmark." 


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BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


The  Rev.  Edwin  R.  Gordon,  Minister  of 
Chiltonville  Congregational  Church,  Plym- 
outh, Mass.,  and  WilHam  F.  Huntley, 
practicing  law  at  11  Pemberton  Square, 
Boston,  were  the  first  to  respond  to  the 
Class  letter  regarding  our  50th.  Both  said 
that  they  liked  the  idea  of  a  reunion  on  the 
Campus.  For  their  prompt  replies,  a  salute 
to  Ed  and  Bill. 

"Am  looking  forward  to  plans  for  June," 
Bill  White  writes  from  Kingston,  Ontario. 
"Staying  together  at  the  College  sounds 
good  to  me." 

R.  W.  McPhee,  home  again  in  Ann  Ar- 
bor, Mich.,  after  visiting  his  son,  Ralph, 
Jr.,  in  Palo  Alto,  Calif.,  and  his  daughter 
and  her  family  in  Seattle,  Wash.,  says:  "Re- 
ceived your  letter  announcing  appointment 
of  Bill  Burnham  as  50th  Reunion  Chair- 
man and  think  it  a  wonderful  choice.  I'll 
be   there   unless   I   have   one   foot   in   the 


grave. 


1908 


Dr.  W.  Henry  Rivard,  Dean  of  the 
Rhode  Island  College  of  Pharmacy,  was 
admitted  to  the  Rhode  Island  Hospital  in 
January  after  having  suffered  third  degree 
burns  about  the  face  and  hands  when  a 
cleansing  fluid  he  was  using  became 
ignited.  (His  injuries,  unfortunately,  were 
fatal.  He  died  Feb.  5— Ed.) 

Ernest  L.  Blish  is  retired  and  living  in 
Sarasota,  Fla.,  spring  home  of  the  Boston 
Red  Sox. 

1909 

Ed  Squire,  who  has  retired  from  Brook- 
lyn Polytech,  plans  to  continue  consulting 
work  with  Lockwood  Kessler  &  Bartloff, 
Inc.,  One  Aerial  Way,  Syosset,  N.  Y.  His 
home  address  is  8  Terrace  Circle,  Great 
Neck,  L.  I.,  N.  Y. 

T.  Harper  Goodspeed  has  moved  and  is 
Hving  at  661  Woodmont  Ave.,  Berkeley  8, 
Calif. 

1910 

Robert  L.  Munson  has  sent  in  a  letter 
from  Florida  giving  a  report  of  his  last 
nine  months.  Between  our  undependable 
New  England  weather  and  illness  by  both 
Bob  and  his  wife,  he  has  experienced  his 
share  of  the  "downs."  However,  on  the 
brighter  side,  they  spent  last  summer  on 
Pishaw  Lake,  near  Old  Town,  Me.,  and 
they  are  presently  located  at  1000  Florida 
Ave.,  P.O.  Box  946,  Tarpon  Springs,  Fla. 
Any  friends  in  '10  passing  that  way  will  be 
cordially  received. 

Alexander  Wicliffe  Muir  has  been  direct- 
ing road  construction  for  the  government 
of  Egypt.  By  the  way,  that's  quite  a  prefix 
for  old  friend  "Mule."  On  his  Christmas 
card  to  Hoke  Horton,  he  wrote:  "Edith  and 
Mule,  thanks  to  orders  from  Uncle  Sam, 
are  home  for  Christmas.  We  had  an  inter- 
esting time  in  Egypt,  which  was  terminated 
all  too  soon  and  too  abruptly.  We  left  most 
of  our  belongings  over  there,  and,  so  far 
as  we  know,  they  are  still  there.  We  hope, 
ultimately,  to  get  them  back.  Possibly  we 
may  return  to  the  land  of  the  Pharaohs  to 
finish  what  we  left  undone,  but  that  also  is 
only  speculation  at  the  moment." 

A  classmate  sent  in  a  newspaper  picture 
of  Roy  T.  Davis  scratching  his  head  while 
answering  the  telephone.  The  caption  un- 
der the  picture  read:  "It's  a  mess.  U.  S. 
Ambassador  Roy  Davis  en  route  to  Wash- 
ington pauses  at  Miami  airport  to  telephone 
ahead  details  of  the  turmoil  in  Haiti." 

Edward  J.  Shaeffer  and  his  family  took 
an  excellent  South  American  trip  last  year, 
and  a  short  while  ago  he  sent  a  picture  of 
them  on  their  journey.  He  also  commented 
that  Skip  Conant  was  well. 

Malcolm  S.  Field  has  the  sympathy  of 


the  Class  in  the  death  of  his  wife  last  Oc- 
tober. She  had  been  ill  several  months. 

ED  SPICER 

1911 

Julius  A.  Saacke,  in  Tucson  during  the 
winter,  continues  there  for  the  spring.  His 
address:  Rosemont  Apts.,  5049  East  Broad- 
way. 

1912 

William  H.  Dinkins,  who  served  many 
years  as  President  of  Selma  University, 
Selma,  Alabama,  reports  that  his  son,  a 
preacher,  has  been  working  with  the  In- 
ternational Sunday  School  Lesson  Commit- 
tee. The  Sunday  School  Publishing  Board 
is  in  Nashville  and  operates  under  the  Na- 
tional Baptist  Convention.  From  1951-54 
Bill  wrote  30  quarterlies  for  this  publica- 
tion. 

1913 

Lionel  M.  Bishop  decided  to  loaf  after 
retiring  as  Publisher  of  Cosmopolitan. 
However,  Bish  couldn't  stand  this  sort  of 
life,  and,  after  two  months,  he  started  a 
business  in  Florida.  This  didn't  work  out, 
for  lack  of  manpower,  and  he's  now  back 
in  Chicago  as  Manager  of  Western  Family 
— and  having  fun  in  the  bargain. 


1914 

The  Rev.  L.  C.  T.  Miller  continues  as 
Associate  Director  of  the  Department  of 
United  Promotion  of  the  Evangelical  and 
Reformed  Church.  He  gave  the  sermon 
recently  at  the  Trinity  Evangelical  and  Re- 
formed Church,  Tamaqua,  Pa.,  which  of- 
ficially opened  a  campaign  to  raise  $125,000 
for  building  a  much-needed  church. 

1916 

Samuel  R.  Damon  was  appointed  Con- 
sultant with  the  Indiana  Board  of  Health 
Jan.  1.  Formerly,  he  was  Director  of  Labo- 
ratories at  the  Alabama  State  Department 
of  Health,  and,  for  the  past  1 1  years,  he  has 
held  the  same  position  in  the  Indiana  State 
Board  of  Health. 

John  B.  Dunn  has  been  re-appointed 
Providence  Public  Safety  Commissioner. 

1917 

Ralph  A.  Armstrong  has  been  named 
Assistant  General  Counsel  for  the  Massa- 
chusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company. 
He  has  been  with  his  company  since  1927 
and  was  appointed  an  Attorney  in  1931, 
Assistant  Counsel  in  1945,  and  Associate 
Counsel  in  1952.  In  his  spare  time,  Ralph 
is  Vice-Chairman  of  the  Springfield  chapter 


A  Tribute  to  a  Trustee 


HIGH  Community  Service"  was  the 
heading  on  the  editorial  in  the 
Record-Gazette  of  Greenfield,  Mass.,  for 
Dec.  19,  which  paid  this  tribute  to  Donald 
D.  Millar  '19: 

Straight  from  the  heart  was  the  praise 
voiced  by  Greenfield  Community  YMCA 
directors  Monday  night  on  behalf  of 
Donald  G.  Millar,  retiring  as  president 
after  three  terms. 

John  W.  Haigis,  Chairman  of  the  Board 
at  Franklin  County  Trust  Company,  spoke 
of  Millar's  "industrial  statesmanship  and 
civic  leadership."  Howard  J.  Cadwell, 
President  of  Western  Massachusetts  Elec- 


DONALD  G.  MILLAR  '19 


trie  Company,  spoke  of  the  retiring  Y 
leader's  "imposing  list  of  accomplish- 
ments." Then  the  directors  gave  Millar  a 
rising  vote  of  thanks  and  applauded  for  a 
full  two  minutes. 

If  ever  a  tribute  was  deserved,  it  was  in 
this  instance.  Among  the  men  and  women 
who  have  helped  build  Greenfield's  Com- 
munity YMCA  to  its  present  position  in 
Franklin  County  life,  Mr.  Millar  has  been 
one  of  the  most  active.  His  counsel  has 
been  constructive,  and  his  vision  has  stood 
the  test  of  uncertain  time. 

More  than  the  Community  YMCA  has 
benefited  from  Don  Millar's  association 
with  Greenfield  Tap  and  Die  Corporation 
for  the  past  20  years.  Both  town  and  county 
have  gained.  The  area  is  better  today  be- 
cause of  his  energy  and  his  foresight. 

As  head  of  the  area's  largest  manufactur- 
ing concern,  Mr.  Millar  might  be  forgiven 
the  excuse  that  he  is  too  busy  to  take  part 
in  civic  projects.  Instead  he  has  taken  an 
active  role.  Typical  was  his  work  in  the 
recent  United  Fund  drive  which  saw  GTD 
owners,  executives  and  employes  play  a 
leading  part  in  the  campaign's  success. 

Many  other  instances  of  the  Tap  and  Die 
president's  strong  community  spirit  have 
received  less  public  notice.  Hardly  a  worth- 
while effort  in  recent  years  has  not  received 
sympathetic  attention  and  personal  assist- 
ance from  the  GTD  official  family  under 
Don  Millar's  supervision.  This  attitude  has 
been  typical  of  the  man  and  an  inspiration 
to  others  to  put  forth  similar  effort. 

Retirement  as  president  will  not  lessen 
Mr.  Millar's  interest  in  the  Community  Y. 
No  man  could  sever  such  close  ties, 
especially  a  person  so  genuinely  interested 
in  the  welfare  of  youth.  Future  Y  leaders 
will  always  be  able  to  count  upon  his  coun- 
sel and  active  assistance.  .  .  .  Not  only  the 
Y  but  also  Franklin  County  as  an  economic 
and  social  unit  owes  Donald  G.  Millar  a 
vote  of  thanks  for  service  beyond  self. 


MARCH    1957 


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BROWN  CHAIRS  were  a  Christmas  present  to  John  S.   Foley  '25  of  Grosse  Pointe,  Mich.,  so  he  and  his 

classmate,  William  M.  Browne,  had  their  pictures  taken  in  them.  "Afraid  there's  too  much  man  and  too 

little  choir,"   Foley  comments,   "but  maybe   it  was   because  a   friend   from    Penn   State  took  the   picture. 

It  was  Christmas  night."  (Almost  Dec.  26,  if  the  clock  is  ony  indication.) 


of  the  American  Red  Cross,  a  Trustee  of 
Western  New  England  College  and  of  the 
Brown  University  Fund,  and  a  member  of 
the  Connecticut  Valley  Brown  Club. 

1919 

Roger  T.  Clapp  retired  as  President  of 
the  Narragansett  Council,  Boy  Scouts  of 
America,  after  presiding  at  the  annual 
meeting  in  January.  During  his  two  years 
in  office,  the  Scout  membership  in  the  area 
rose  from  18,500  to  22,400.  Clapp  contin- 
ues as  a  member  of  the  National  Council, 
along  with  Walter  Adler  '18,  Sidney  Clif- 
ford '15,  William  J.  Gilbane  '33,  Elmer  S. 
Horton  '10,  Albert  E.  Lownes  '20,  Chesley 
Worthington  '23,  and  Dean  Edward  R. 
Durgin. 

Jack  Haley  was  a  member  of  the  Awards 
Jury  for  the  2.'ith  national  competition  and 
exhibit  of  outdoor  advertising  sponsored 
by  the  Art  Directors  Club  of  Chicago,  Jan. 
22-23.  Jack  continues  as  Advertising  Man- 
ager and  Director  of  the  Narragansett 
Brewing  Company. 

W.  Chester  Beard  has  been  appointed 
General  Chairman  of  the  1957  Episcopal 
Charities  Drive  in  Rhode  Island.  Other 
Brown  men  prominent  in  the  1957  plans 
are  Robert  H.  Goff  '24,  Chairman  of  Ad- 
vanced Gifts,  and  William  E.  Bennett  '30, 
Chairman  of  General  Solicitations. 

Fritz  Pollard  has  turned  his  hand  to  the 
movies  and  has  produced,  in  cooperation 
with  Austin  Productions,  "Rocking  the 
Blues,"  an  all-Negro  film  which  has  been 
described  by  reviewers  as  "the  last  word 
in  rock  'n'  roll  entertainment." 

1920 

James  Q.  Dealey,  Jr.,  is  Professor  of  Po- 
litical Science  and  also  head  of  that  de- 
partment at  the  University  of  Toledo.  Be- 
fore joining  his  present  college  in  1947. 
Jim  taught  at  Western  Reserve,  Cleveland 
and  Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  N.  Y. 
^  Albert  E.  Lownes  has  been  elected  Pres- 
ident of  the  Rhode  Island  Historical   So- 


ciety. Several  Brown  men,  also  new  mem- 
bers of  the  standing  committees  of  that 
organization,  include  H.  Cushman  Anthony 
'26,  membership;  Ivory  Littlefield,  Jr.  '46, 
lecture;  and  Garry  Byrnes  '26,  publica- 
tions. 

1921 

Bob  Buerhaus  is  the  owner  of  the  Con- 
tinental Soap  Company,  18  Bartlett  Sq., 
Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

Classmates  e.\tend  their  sympathy  to 
Mark  A.  Nickerson  on  the  death  of  his 
wife,  Edna  J.  (Ricketson)  Nickerson,  Jan. 
23,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

1922 

C.  Manton  Eddy  hasn't  "gone  Holly- 
wood," but  he's  been  there  professionally. 
His  company,  Connecticut  General  Life 
Insurance  Co.,  has  produced  a  motion  pic- 
ture designed  to  promote  a  better  under- 
standing of  group  insurance  benefits.  Eddy, 
Vice-President  of  Connecticut  General's 
group  insurance  and  pension  activities,  par- 
ticipated in  the  development  of  the  film  at 
the  studio  of  Parthenon  Pictures. 

Chapin  S.  Newhard,  as  President  of  the 
Board  of  St.  Louis  Country  Day  School,  is 
giving  leadership  to  its  building  program 
which  will  enable  the  School  to  move  to  its 
new  campus  next  fall.  He  took  an  active 
part  in  ground-breaking  ceremonies  a  year 
ago,  as  the  cover  picture  of  the  School's 
Alumni  Bulletin  showed. 

Dr.  Theodore  A.  Distler's  address  at  the 
Lehigh  Founder's  Day  exercises  last  fall 
was  published  in  the  December  issue  of  the 
Leiiigh  Alumni  Bulletin.  Its  title:  "The 
Past  Is  Prologue."  Distler,  former  Presi- 
dent of  Franklin  and  Marshall  College,  is 
Executive  Director  of  the  Association  of 
American  Colleges. 

William  Paxton  of  the  Moses  Brown 
School  in  Providence  is  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  School  and 
College  Conference  on  English.  He  at- 
tended its  meeting  in  Boston  in  December. 


1923 

Robert  G.  Bleakney,  Western  Area  Su- 
perintendent with  the  New  England  Tele- 
phone and  Telegraph  Company,  has  been 
named  to  the  new  post  of  Assistant  Gen- 
eral Manager  for  Massachusetts.  Bob  is  a 
32-year  veteran  of  service  with  the  Com- 
pany. 

Stephen  A.  McClellan  was  a  Campus 
visitor  in  January  when  his  son  returned  to 
Brown  after  a  period  of  military  service. 

The  Class  extends  its  sympathy  to  Don 
and  Dick  Thorndike  on  the  death  of  their 
mother,  Mabel  G.  Thorndike,  Jan.  16,  in 
Providence. 

1924 

It  was  going  to  be  tight  connections  for 
Edward  R.  Place,  President  of  the  Brown 
University  Club  of  Washington,  to  attend 
the  February  Advisory  Council  meetings  in 
Providence.  Ed  had  to  make  an  address  in 
South  Bend,  Ind.,  on  Feb.  6  about  the  St. 
Lawrence  Seaway  project,  of  which  he  is 
Director  of  Public  Relations.  (The  Ad- 
visory Council  came  two  days  later.) 

Ernest  W.  Gray  is  Professor  of  English 
and  Chairman  of  that  Department  at  the 
University  of  Toledo,  where  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Faculty  since  1947. 

Frank  Ring  of  Filene's  of  Boston  con- 
tinues as  an  avid  sports  enthusiast.  Accord- 
ing to  a  friend,  "he  likes  the  Red  Sox,  but 
if  you  really  want  to  see  him  shout  and 
wave  his  arms  just  drop  in  at  the  Boston 
Garden  when  the  Boston  Bruins  are  play- 
ing!" 

1925 

S.  J.  Perelman  was  signed  by  "Omnibus" 
to  write  its  Jan.  27  show  on  the  history  of 
burlesque,  starring  Bert  Lahr.  As  one  col- 
umnist said,  "Perelman  is  being  garlanded 
all  over  the  place  for  his  script,  'Around 
the  World  in  80  Days.'  " 

Dr.  Harry  S.  N.  Greene,  Professor  and 
Chairman  of  the  Department  of  Pathology 
of  the  Yale  University  School  of  Medicine, 
spoke  at  the  fourth  annual  Tulane  Cancer 
Lecture  recently  in  New  Orleans. 

Alden  H.  Norton  has  been  aopointed 
Vice-President  in  charge  of  Editorial  for 
Popular  Publications,  Inc.  He  has  been  as- 
sociated with  the  firm  in  various  capacities 
for  22  years  and  is  Executive  Editor  of 
Argosy  Magazine. 

Roger  Cummings  is  Art  Director  with 
the  Education  Division  of  the  International 
Cooperation  Administration  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

Henry  H.  Macintosh  was  on  the  list  of 
promotions  announced  in  January  by  the 
Rhode  Island  Hospital  Trust  Bank  in  Provi- 
dence. His  new  post  will  be  that  of  Assist- 
ant Vice-President. 

1926 

Amarendra  Nath  Sen,  sending  New 
Year's  greetings  to  all  the  Class,  provided  a 
new  address:  "Amarniketan,"  77/B,  Rash- 
behary  Ave.,  Calcutta  26,  India. 

R.  Franklin  Weller  was  named  a  District 
Director  of  the  American  Retail  Associa- 
tion Executives  at  the  group's  39th  annual 
meeting  in  January.  He  is  Manager  of  the 
Retail  Trade  Board  of  the  Greater  Provi- 
dence Chamber  of  Commerce  and  has  been 
a  member  of  the  national  group  of  retail 
trade  executives  for  the  past  10  years. 

Leslie  Allen  Jones.  Assistant  Professor 
of  English  and  Technical  Director  of  Dra- 
matics at  Brown,  had  a  story  on  his  favor- 
ite subject — clocks — published  in  the  Rhode 
Islander  section  of  the  Providence  Sunday 
Journal  Dec.  30. 

J.  Allen  Brown,  realtor  in  Coral  Gables, 


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BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


Fla.,  has  just  completed  a  herculean  task, 
putting  together  the  163  rd  Street  Shopping 
Center  there.  The  job  was  like  working  on 
a  $15,000,000  jigsaw  puzzle,  with  thou- 
sands of  pieces  that  have  to  fit  into  their 
proper  places.  A  resident  of  Coral  Gables 
since  1924,  he  was  one  of  the  men  who 
helped  in  the  writing  of  the  Coral  Gables 
zoning  code.  He  has  been  Chairman  of  the 
Planning  and  Zoning  Board  since  1937. 

Kent  Godfrey  took  a  leave  of  absence 
from  his  real  estate  business  in  Falls 
Church,  Va.,  last  August  and  took  a  vaca- 
tion in  Miami.  However,  he  soon  found 
himself  working  as  Advertising  Manager 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Miami 
magazine  and  newsletter.  The  Miainian.  He 
reports  that  "Florida  has  something!"  He 
also  reports  that  he  has  a  granddaughter, 
Deborah  Cheryl  Hamilton,  born  Nov.  13, 
1956.  Both  his  daughter  and  her  husband 
went  to  Virginia  Polytech. 

1927 

Fred  H.  Barrows,  Jr.,  reports  that  reun- 
ion plans  are  progressing  smoothly.  The 
schedule  of  events  for  the  30th  was  out- 
Uned  in  the  December  issue,  providing  an 
attractive  weekend  that  starts  with  Friday, 
May  31.  The  reminder  cards  which  went 
to  all  the  Class  are  being  followed  up  by  a 
questionnaire. 

The  Rev.  Franklin  D.  Elmer,  Jr.,  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church,  Flint,  Mich.,  has 
been  invited  to  preach  the  morning  sermon 
at  the  First  Baptist  Meeting  House  in  Prov- 
idence on  Commencement  Sunday,  June  2. 
It  has  been  the  tradition  for  some  years 
for  the  Church  to  bring  to  its  platform  at 
that  time  a  Baptist  minister  who  is  a  Brown 
graduate.  Fred  Barrows  writes:  "This  is 
indeed  an  honor  both  for  Frank  and  the 
Class  of  1927.  Due  to  other  commitments, 
Frank  has  not  been  able  to  return  to  prior 
reunions.  We  shall  be  happy  to  welcome 
him  back." 

Al  Marble,  a  resident  of  Vicksburg, 
Miss.,  since  1939,  says  that  he  might  be  a 
"damn  Yankee"  by  birth,  but  Mississippi 
is  his  adopted  home,  and  he  never  plans 
leaving.  From  several  reports,  music  of  all 
kinds  still  comes  from  the  organ  when  Al's 
fingers  pound  the  key  board.  Incidentally, 
when  his  youngest  son  is  graduated  from 
Mississippi  State  this  June,  Al  will  have 
seen  all  six  of  his  children  through  college. 

1928 

Kent  Matteson  is  going  to  serve  as  Chair- 
man of  our  30th  Reunion.  Tentative  plans 
already  have  been  made  up,  with  a  com- 
mittee consisting  of  Matteson,  Lorin  Litch- 
field, and  Jack  Heffernan.  One  point  al- 
ready has  been  clarified.  The  wives  will 
once  again  be  an  integral  part  of  our  pro- 
gram. If  our  30th  lives  up  to  the  standard 
set  by  our  25th.  we  will  all  be  happy! 

J.  Saunders  Redding  was  the  guest  lec- 
turer at  the  second  session  of  the  Cultural 
Series  at  the  Delaware  State  College  Li- 
brary recently. 

Harrison  Bullard  has  been  promoted  to 
Manager  of  the  Saturday  Evening  Post  in 
Minneapolis,  and  he  left  early  in  January 
to  assume  his  new  duties.  He  doesn't  ex- 
pect to  be  able  to  bring  his  family  along 
until  May  or  June.  On  the  agenda  for  this 
spring,  however,  is  a  visit  to  Providence  to 
"show  Pembroke  to  my  daughter." 

The  Class  offers  its  deepest  sympathy  to 
Benjamin  S.  Tully  on  the  death  of  his 
mother,  Mrs.  Grace  C.  Tully,  Jan.  16,  in 
Barrington,  R.  1. 

1929 

Doug  Borden  and  his  son,  Doug  Jr.,  '53, 
had  an  unusual  experience  Dec.  28.  Each 


became  the  father  of  a  baby  boy  on  that 
date!  This  was  the  second  child  and  first 
boy  for  our  Classmate  and  his  second  wife. 

The  Class  offers  its  sympathy  to  Winston 
S.  Dodge,  on  the  death  of  his  father, 
George  S.  Dodge,  Jan.  6,  in  New  Bedford. 

Robert  H.  Blake  is  Assistant  Manager  of 
the  Paris,  France,  office  of  the  Guaranty 
Trust  Company  of  New  York.  He  is  the 
Director  of  the  American  Aid  Society  of 
Paris,  the  American  Interstate  Commissary, 
and  former  President  of  the  American  Li- 
brary in  Paris,  and  many  other  public- 
spirited  organizations.  In  addition,  he  has 
received  10  French  decorations,  three  mili- 
tary and  seven  civilian. 


Promotion  at  M.I.T. 

The  practice  at  M.I.T.,  we're 
told,  has  been  that  all  new  depart- 
mental chairmen  must  be  brought  in 
"from  outside."  All  the  higher  is  the 
compliment  to  Prof.  Irwin  W.  Sizer 
'31  in  his  selection  as  Chairman  of 
M.I.T.'s  Biology  Department.  The  21 
years  of  his  active  teaching  have  all 
been  spent  at  the  Institute. 

After  getting  his  Ph.D.  from  Rut- 
gers in  1935,  he  went  to  Tech  as  In- 
structor and  Research  Associate  in 
Biology  and  Public  Health.  He  be- 
came Associate  Professor  in  1942, 
Executive  Officer  of  the  Department 
in  1954,  and  Acting  Chairman  last 
fall.  He  was  a  Visiting  Lecturer  at 
Brown  in  1951,  teaching  a  seminar 
course  on  enzymes,  the  field  of  his 
outstanding  research.  He  has  long 
directed  the  graduate  research  of 
students  in  his  Department. 


1930 

Aaron  H.  Roitman  has  been  named 
Chairman  of  the  Providence  Boy  Scout 
District,  replacing  Wes  Moulton  '31,  who 
became  District  Commissioner.  Another 
Brunonian,  Dr.  Tom  McOsker  '39,  was 
elected  Vice-Chairman  of  the  organization. 

Edmund  J.  Farrell,  Superintendent  of 
Schools  in  Pawtucket,  is  a  new  member  of 
the  Board  of  the  Community  Workshops 
of  Rhode  Island,  Inc. 

1931 

George  F.  Troy,  Jr.,  is  the  new  Literary 
Editor  of  the  Providence  Journal  and  edits 
the  Sunday  book  page.  Except  for  a  year  on 
the  Brown  Faculty,  he  has  been  with  the 
Journal  since  graduation,  for  much  of  the 
time  covering  news  of  education.  His  writ- 
ing has  included  fiction  (with  at  least  one 
successful  novel )   and  book  reviews. 

Duncan  Campbell  of  Lafayette,  Calif., 
is  teaching  courses  in  Real  Estate  in  the 
University  Extension  at  the  University  of 
California.  This  is  his  busiest  season,  as  he 
has  had  38  classes  scheduled  in  19  cities  in 
Northern  California  for  February  and 
March. 

C.  Newton  Kraus,  ham  operator  from 
Warren,  R.  I.,  who  has  kept  many  Rhode 
Island  families  in  touch  with  their  men  at 
the  South  Pole,  has  been  given  the  Navy's 
Distinguished  Public  Service  Award,  the 
highest  honor  paid  by  the  Navy  to  civilians. 
Newt  thus  becomes  the  second  member  of 
his  family  to  receive  this  award.  His 
father.  Dr.  Charles  A.  Kraus,  long  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Brown  Faculty  and  a  nationally- 
famous  research  chemist,  won  the  honor  in 
1949  for  his  supervision  of  Navy  contracts 
with  Brown  during  the  war. 


Don  O'Neill  is  the  General  Sales  Man- 
ager with  the  Tuttle  &  Bailey  Division  of 
Allied  Thermal  Corporation. 

1932 

Dr.  Alonzo  Moron,  President  of  Hamp- 
ton Institute,  Hampton,  Va.,  recently  re- 
turned from  an  extensive  trip  through  the 
Middle  East.  In  late  November,  he  gave  a 
series  of  addresses  based  on  his  trip  in  six 
appearances  in  Rock  Island  and  Davenport, 
111. 

Dr.  Frederic  W.  Ripley,  Jr.,  was  re- 
elected 2nd  Vice-President  of  the  R.  I.  Di- 
vision of  the  American  Cancer  Society  in 
January.  Also  on  the  Executive  Committee 
is  Stanley  C.  Paige. 

1933 

Daniel  H.  Rider  was  among  the  victors 
in  the  November  elections.  He  was  elected 
Representative  in  the  General  Court  of 
Massachusetts  as  a  Republican  from  the 
6th  Norfolk  District,  comprising  the  towns 
of  Needham,  Dedham,  and  Canton.  He 
also  is  Chairman  of  the  Needham  School 
Committee,  on  which  he  has  served  for  the 
past  five  years.  He  and  his  wife,  two  daugh- 
ters, and  two  sons  reside  at  177  Fair  Oaks 
Park,  Needham,  where  he  is  engaged  in 
the  private  practice  of  law. 

Frank  Gammino  presented  a  $15,000 
gift  to  the  Bishop  Scalabrini  Home  for  the 
Aged  Fund  Jan.  12  in  the  name  of  his 
parents,  the  late  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Michael  A. 
Gammino. 

Bill  Gilbane  was  a  proud  and  happy  man 
in  December.  First,  his  daughter  Ginny  and 
her  partner  won  the  National  Indoor  Ten- 
nis Doubles  Championship  for  girls  13  and 
under  at  the  Longwood  Cricket  Club.  Sec- 
ond, another  daughter,  Mary  Lou,  topped 
the  1956  singles  rankings  of  the  Rhode  Is- 
land Tennis  Association.  She  also  was  top 
rated  in  the  18-and-under  girl's  division. 

Alfred  T.  Hill  continues  as  Executive 
Secretary  for  the  National  Council  for  the 
Advancement  of  Small  Colleges.  He  is  liv- 
ing and  working  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

1934 

Max  H.  Flaxman  has  been  appointed  as 
Assistant  Principal  at  Classical  High 
School  in  Providence.  He  had  served  as  a 
Science  teacher  at  Classical  since  1952. 

George  A.  Baker,  Jr.,  has  been  elected  a 
Vice-President  of  the  American  Screw 
Company  of  Willimantic,  Conn.  He  has 
been  with  the  firm  since  1940,  serving  in 
sales  analysis  and  market  research.  Since 
1950,  he  has  been  Assistant  to  the  Presi- 
dent. 

Jim  Knight,  General  Manager  of  the 
Miami  Herald  and  Publisher  of  the  Char- 
lotte Observer,  has  been  elected  President 
of  the  Southern  Newspaper  Publishers  As- 
sociation. 

Fred  Haas  has  been  appointed  Fan 
Merchandising  Specialist  for  the  Diehl 
Manufacturing  Company.  He  will  work  out 
of  Diehl's  office  in  Needham,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  H.  Campbell  Eatough  has  been 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Franklin,  Mass.  He  had  been 
pastor  at  Bass  River,  Mass. 

1935 

William  T.  Broomhead  is  the  new  State 
Chairman  of  the  Republican  Party  in 
Rhode  Island.  Although  unsuccessful  as 
candidate  for  Lieutenant  Governor  last 
fall,  he  made  a  fine  campaign  and  im- 
pressed himself  on  his  partisans  doing  so. 
Among  those  who  backed  him  for  his  new 
post  was  Christopher  Del  Sesto,  Republi- 


MARCH    1957 


29 


A  Scholarship  from  1936 


GORDON  Cadwgan  acted  for  the  Class  of 
1936  in  January  in  presenting  to  the 
University  a  check  for  $2000  for  scholar- 
ship purposes.  The  money  will  be  used,  be- 
ginning in  the  academic  year  1957-58,  to 
help  one  student  through  Brown,  presum- 
ably at  the  rate  of  $500  a  year.  The  fund 
came  primarily  through  a  drive  conducted 
by  a  special  committee  of  the  Class  follow- 
ing last  June's  reunion,  with  a  supplement 
from  the  Class  treasury. 

The  list  of  contributors  includes:  Byron 
H.  Abedon,  Norman  M.  Appleyard,  Jr., 
Walter  G.  Barney,  William  H.  Benton,  Jr., 
Dr.  Samuel  Bojar,  Richard  K.  Bristol,  C. 
Warren  Bubier,  Cadwgan,  Walter  Chucnin, 
Paul  O.  Connly,  Franklin  Curtiss,  Warren 
R.  Daum,  Jack  Despres,  John  G.  Dunn, 
Dr.  Warren  H.  Eddy,  Earl  Fleisig,  Arthur 
M.  Freeman,  John  J.  Gallagher,  Clarence 
H.  Gifford,  Jr.,  Prof.  John  D.  Glover, 
Walter  Goetz,  Jerome  W.  Gratenstein, 
Conrad  E.  Green; 

Also,  Dr.  Wesley  N.  Haines,  Frank  G. 


Handy,  Dr.  Clarence  D.  Hawkes,  Paul  W. 
Holt,  John  E.  Howard,  Paul  S.  Hoye,  Wil- 
liam H.  Kahler,  Robert  W.  Kenyon,  Charles 
B.  Kiesel,  Jr.,  Philip  J.  Lappin,Cdr.  Stanton 
M.  Latham,  Harold  H.  Levene,  Dr.  Her- 
bert M.  Levenson,  the  Rev.  Albert  W.  Low, 
James  C.  Maiden,  Jr.,  Dr.  M.  Price  Mar- 
golies,  Ambrose  J.  Murray,  Charles  E.  H. 
Nauss,  Dr.  John  O'L.  Nolan,  Dr.  Louis  J. 
Novak,  Dr.  Edward  M.  Ohaneson,  Joseph 
Olney,  Jr.,  Alfred  J.  Owens,  Horace  B. 
Passmore,  Leon  M.  Payne,  Robert  E. 
Pickup; 

Also,  Richard  M.  Rieser,  Karl  E.  Righter, 
Norman  Russian,  the  Rev.  Gene  Scaring!, 
Joseph  D.  Small,  Edwin  S.  Soforenko,  Irv- 
ing H.  Strasmich.  William  G.  Summer, 
Charles  Summerfield,  Max  Swartz,  Theo- 
dore Tannenwald,  Jr.,  William  G.  Thomp- 
son, Prof.  John  W.  Tukey,  Dr.  Paul  J. 
Votta,  Norman  B.  Wakeman,  Frank  J. 
Watson,  James  L.  Whitcomb,  Isaac  H. 
Whyte,  Jr.,  Ernest  C.  Wilks,  and  Dr.  Frank 
G.  Ziobrowski. 


can  candidate  for  Governor,  against  whom 
the  Supreme  Court  decided  in  its  consid- 
eration of  the  absentee  ballots  and  ballots 
from  shut-ins. 

Dr.  Daniel  D.  Alexander,  Psychiatrist  at 
the  Danvers  State  Hospital,  was  the  guest 
speaker  recently  at  the  luncheon-meeting 
of  the  Greater  Lynn  (Mass.)  Conference 
of  Health,  Education,  and  Social  Workers. 
Dr.  Alexander  is  in  charge  of  the  Out- 
patient Clinic  at  the  hospital  for  patients 
over  16,  and  he  also  serves  as  Supervisor  of 
Child  Guidance  work  in  Salem  and  Lynn. 

H.  Brainard  Fancher  has  spent  the  last 
three  months  in  full-time  attendance  at  the 
General  Electric  Company  Advanced  Man- 
agement Center  in  Crotonville,  N.  Y., 
where  the  company  is  set  up  to  offer  the 
same  type  of  advanced  training  as  the  Har- 
vard Business  School. 

Nelson  Record  has  been  ill  recently,  and 
his  Classmates  wish  him  a  speedy  recovery. 
He's  living  at  6  Whittier  Drive,  Johnston. 
R.  I. 

Al  Joslin  was  Chief  Counsel  for  Christo- 
pher Del  Sesto,  Republican  candidate  for 
Governor  in  Rhode  Island,  during  the  long 
legal  battle  following  the  November  elec- 
tion. 

1936 

Walter  Goetz  is  in  charge  of  production 
for  the  popular  television  show,  "The  Mil- 
lionaire." He  visited  New  Haven  recently 
and  recalled  the  many  trips  he  made  to 
that  city  while  an  undergraduate  at  Brown, 
usually  to  see  the  Bear  battle  the  Bulldog. 
Walter  is  living  at  411 '/»  South  Spaldine, 
Beverly  Hills,  Calif. 

Alfred  W.  Shepherd  is  Field  Manager 
with  the  Milton  Bradley  Company,  Man- 
lius,  N.  Y.  His  address  is  Palmer  Rd.,  Man- 
lius. 

David  C.  Scott,  Jr.,  is  again  a  member 
of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Com- 
munity Workshops  of  Rhode  Island,  Inc., 
a  social  service  agency. 

Gordon  Cadwgan  led  a  committee  of 
Rhode  Island  citizens  who  drew  up  a  plan 
for  new  Slate  aid  to  schools  recently.  He 
is  with  G.  H.  Walker  Company,  Providence 
investment  bankers. 


1937 

Thurlow  B.  Bearse  has  been  appointed  to 
a  three-year  term  on  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee in  the  town  of  Barnstable,  Mass. 
Treasurer  of  Bradford  Hardware  Company 
of  Hyannis,  he  is  a  Past-President  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Hardware  Dealers  Association. 

Austin  N.  Peck  has  been  appointed  Spe- 
cial Instructor  in  Accounting  and  Business 
Law  for  the  spring  semester  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Rhode  Island. 


DR.  LESTER  H.  SUGARMAN  '30  will  bs  installed 
as  President  of  the  American  Optometric  Associ- 
ation during  its  60th  Annuol  Congress  in  Los 
Angeles.  He  is  a  Past  President  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Council  of  Optometrists  and  a  former  Chair- 
man of  the  Boord  of  Health  in  his  home  town, 
Meriden,  Conn.  He  has  also  held  the  top  posts  at 
various  times  in  the  Meriden  Council  of  PTA's, 
Fellowcraft  Club,  Temple  Men's  Club,  and  Meri- 
den Center  Lodge,  lOOF.  The  AOA  is  the  na- 
tional organization  of  11,000  optometrists. 


Tom  Keefe  continues  as  Sales  Promo- 
tion Manager  for  the  Boston  territory  of 
Sears  Roebuck  &  Company. 

Grove  S.  Dow,  Jr.,  is  a  Design  Engineer 
with  the  University  of  California  at  its  Los 
Alamos,  N.  M.,  Laboratory. 

1938 

Robert  S.  Burgess,  Executive  Director  of 
the  Rhode  Island  Heart  Association,  has 
informed  the  association  that  he  will  re- 
sign May  1  to  take  a  position  in  Pittsburgh. 
There,  he  will  become  Executive  of  the 
Family  and  Child  Welfare  Division  of  the 
Health  and  Welfare  Federation  of  Alle- 
gheny County.  The  Federation  serves  a 
territory  of  about  three  million  people.  Dr. 
Burgess  has  held  his  present  position  since 
1950,  and  under  him  the  Heart  Association 
broadened  its  program  from  primary  in- 
terest in  children  with  heart  disease  to  in- 
terest in  both  children  and  adults. 

Antone  G.  Singsen  has  been  named  Vice- 
President  of  the  newly-formed  Blue  Cross 
Association.  This  organization  will  act  as 
the  national  spokesman  for  its  members, 
the  local  non-profit  Blue  Cross  plans  deal- 
ing with  national  problems  affecting  the 
hospital  care  prepayment  program.  His 
headquarters  will  be  in  New  York  City.  He 
is  a  former  reporter  and  editorial  writer 
for  the  Providence  Journal-Bulletin  and, 
most  recently,  has  been  serving  as  Associ- 
ate Director  of  the  Blue  Cross  Commission 
in  Chicago. 

Bob  Thomas,  employed  by  the  Automo- 
bile Mutual  Insurance  Company  at  the 
Providence  office,  has  been  named  to  the 
1957  Homecoming  Committee. 

1939 

Charles  E.  Gross  has  been  elected  an 
Assistant  Trust  Officer  at  the  Rhode  Island 
Hospital  Trust  Bank. 

1940 

Lou  Valente,  together  with  two  friends, 
wrote  and  published  the  song  entitled, 
"Give  Your  Love  For  Christmas,"  last 
November.  Described  as  "a  ballad  with  a 
message,"  Lou  hopes  that  this  tune  will 
take  its  place  among  the  annual  Christmas 
songs  in  the  years  to  come.  While  an  un- 
dergraduate at  Brown,  three  of  Lou's  songs 
were  used  in  the  varsity  show,  one  being 
picked  up  by  Fred  Waring.  While  in  the 
Army,  he  also  wrote  the  songs  for  two  mu- 
sical shows  in  Europe. 

Samuel  J.  Sherer  is  on  the  West  Coast 
serving  with  the  United  Airlines  in  Seattle 
as  Special  Assistant  to  the  President. 

Maj.  Harlow  L.  Paul  was  transferred  to 
Korea  in  January.  He  had  been  at  Fort 
Banks,  Winthrop,  Mass. 

Albert  Bedell  is  Insurance  Accounts 
Representative  with  C.  R.  Black,  Jr.,  Cor- 
poration, 90  John  St.,  N.  Y. 

1941 

Dr.  Allan  Nanes  has  two  articles  in  cur- 
rent publications.  One  comments  on  the  at- 
tempt to  form  a  European  atomic  com- 
munity in  World  Affairs  Quarterly.  The 
other,  in  Social  Science,  is  on  "Paying  for 
Higher  Education,"  a  subject  to  which 
Brown  men  give  more  than  casual  interest. 
The  author  is  with  the  Library  of  Congress 
in  Washington. 

Jan.  3 1  was  the  first  day  of  the  year  4655 
on  the  Chinese  calendar.  Yat  K.  Tow,  un- 
official Chinese  Mayor  of  Providence, 
closed  his  restaurant  early  and  held  a  New 
Year's  celebration  for  his  employees  and 
family.  Although  the  year  was  scheduled 
to  be  the  Year  of  the  Rooster,  it  was  de- 


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BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


cided  to  call  it  the  Year  of  the  Chicken,  as 
a  compliment  to  the  ladies,  according  to  a 
Providence  Journal  story. 

Tom  Carty  is  head  coach  of  the  hockey 
team  at  Boston  Trade  this  year,  and  he  has 
fielded  a  fine  sextet  in  the  Boston  Confer- 
ence's City  League. 

1942 

Bill  Beauchamp  has  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Major  in  the  United  States 
Army.  He  entered  the  service  in  1952  and 
returned  to  the  continental  U.  S.  from  a 
tour  of  duty  in  Alaska  in  July,  1955. 

Charles  E.  Spencer  has  been  elected  a 
Director  of  Waterbury  National  Bank.  He 
is  with  the  Homer  D.  Bronson  Company, 
Beacon  Falls,  Conn.,  as  Personnel  and 
Purchasing  Director  and  Assistant  Secre- 
tary. 

Thomas  G.  Ahern,  President  and  Treas- 
urer of  Ahern  Textile  Printing,  Inc.,  of 
Norwich,  Conn.,  will  be  listed  for  the  first 
time  in  the  forthcoming  edition  of  "Who's 
Who  in  Commerce  and  Industry." 

John  M.  Sapinsley  is  now  President  of 
the  Lowell  Insulated  Wire  Corporation  of 
Lowell,  Mass.,  in  addition  to  his  duties  as 
President  of  The  Crescent  Company  in 
Pawtucket.  The  latter  recently  acquired  the 
assets  of  the  Lowell  company  and  incorpo- 
rated it  as  a  subsidiary. 

1943 

Kingsley  Meyer,  Sales  Promotion  Man- 
ager of  the  Davol  Rubber  Company,  has 
been  appointed  Campaign  Chairman  for 
the  annual  fund  drive  of  Junior  Achieve- 
ment of  Rhode  Island,  Inc.  Goal  for  the 
drive  this  year  is  $35,000,  which  Junior 
Achievement  Directors  hope  will  make  it 
possible  to  set  up  a  second  business  center 
in  the  Providence  area. 

Ed  Lancaster  has  been  appointed  Sales 
Representative  of  the  Specialty  Division 
and  Progressive  Manufacturing  Division  of 
the  Torrington  Company,  Torrington, 
Conn.  He  will  cover  eastern  New  England 
from  the  firm's  Worcester  regional  office. 
Prior  to  joining  the  Torrington  Company, 
Ed  had  been  employed  as  Assistant  Mer- 
chandising Manager  at  the  Union  Hard- 
ware Company. 

Henry  C.  Adams  is  living  in  Bangor, 
Me.,  where  he  is  Traffic  Superintendent 
with  New  England  Tel  &  Tel.  He  covers 
the  Eastern  area  of  that  State. 

1944 

Paul  A.  Cunningham  is  working  out  of 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  as  a  newspaper  representa- 
tive for  Sawyer-Ferguson-Walker.  His  of- 
fice is  in  the  First  National  Bank  Building. 

1945 

M.  David  Bell  has  been  appointed 
Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee  of 
the  Rhode  Island  Society  for  Mental 
Health.  He  had  been  doing  publicity  work 
in  the  radio  field  prior  to  his  new  position. 

Arnold  M.  Zais  has  been  named  Man- 
ager of  Administrative  Operations  of  the 
Nuclear  Development  Corporation  of 
America  and  will  also  act  as  Controller. 
Prior  to  his  recent  appointment,  he  had 
been  the  General  Business  Manager.  The 
Corporation  is  located  in  White  Plains, 
N.  Y. 

1946 

Harold  W.  Demopulos,  Providence  law- 
yer, has  been  elected  President  of  the 
Rhode  Island  Council  of  Eastern  Orthodox 
Churches. 

Hugh  B.  Allison  has  been  named  Vice- 
President  in  charge  of  Chem-o-sol  sales  for 
the  Chemical   Products  Corp.,  East  Provi- 


THE  MODERN  LANGUAGE  Association  of  America 
announced  at  its  mid-winter  meeting  that  the 
MLA-Crofts-Cornell  Award  for  1956  hod  been 
given  to  Dr.  Richard  M.  Chadbourne  '43  for  his 
book  on  "Ernest  Renan  and  the  Art  of  the  Essay." 
The  $1000  prize,  open  to  all  members  of  the 
MLA,  is  for  a  first-hand  study  in  the  field  of  mod- 
ern liberature.  The  winner  is  Assistant  Professor 
of  French  at  Fordhom.  An  earlier  recipient  of  the 
some  award  was  Thomas  V/arren  Ramsey,  who 
received  his  Brown  A.M.  in  1946;  his  book  was 
on   "Jules  Laforgue." 

dence.  He   has  been   with   this  firm  since 
graduation  from  Brown. 

The  Class  extends  its  sympathy  to  Dante 
Pennacchia  on  the  death  of  his  father  Jan. 
9. 

1947 

Plans  for  the  Big  10th  Reunion  began 
to  take  shape  when  the  Class  committee 
held  its  first  meeting  in  Alumni  House  on 
Feb.  6.  The  major  emphasis  will  be  put  on 
two  days  on  the  Hill,  Friday,  May  31,  and 
Saturday,  June  1.  Registration  and  a  cock- 
tail party  will  lead  off  on  May  31,  pre- 
liminary to  the  Alumni  Dinner  and  Cam- 
pus Dance,  which  the  Class  will  attend. 
Saturday's  features  include  an  outing  and 
the  Class  Dinner.  Ample  mail  notice  is 
promised  to  all  by  Chairman  Norm  Jerome. 

Committee  assignments  include:  Ken 
Taylor  and  Dick  Goff,  cocktail  party;  War- 
ren Macdonald,  Friday  night  events;  Stan 
Blacher,  outing;  Bill  Joslin  and  Joe  Riker, 
Class  Dinner;  Ben  Boyle  and  Don  Creamer, 
publicity;  plus  Dom  Canna,  Art  Bussey, 
and  President  Jay  James,  ex  officio.  Re- 
gional representatives  will  be  announced 
shortly. 

Donald  E.  Creamer  is  President  and 
Robinson  C.  Trowbridge  '52  is  Executive 
Vice-President  of  Creamer-Trowbridge  Co., 
Providence  advertising  and  public  rela- 
tions agency,  which  was  incorporated  as  of 
Jan.  1. 

1948 

Morton  J.  Marks  is  employed  as  Special 
Assistant  to  the  Solicitor  of  Labor  in  the 
U.  S.  Department  of  Labor,  Washington, 
D.  C.  He  celebrated  the  birth  of  his  first 
child,  Peter,  in  January  by  buying  a  new 
home  at  3500  Dundee  Drive,  North  Chevy 
Chase  15,  Md. 

Lew  Shaw  has  been  elected  President  of 
the  Junior  Chamber  of  Commerce  in 
Springfield,  Mass.  Lew  was  able  to  catch 
but   one    football    game   last   fall,    but   he 


picked  a  good  one — Brown's  first  pigskin 
triumph  over  Cornell  on  Homecoming  Day. 
William  E.  McAuliffe,  a  recent  Campus 
visitor,  is  New  England  Sales  Manager  for 
Miller  Furniture  Co.  of  Boston,  special- 
ists in  contemporary  furniture.  He  has 
bought  a  new  home  at  9  Wesson  Rd.,  Ash- 
land, where  he  and  his  wife  are  now  living. 

1949 

Ted  LaBonne  is  keeping  busy  in  his 
"spare"  time.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Jun- 
ior Chamber  of  Commerce  in  Manchester, 
Conn.,  as  well  as  President  of  the  Hocka- 
num  Brown  Club  of  Manchester. 

Richard  Sayles,  investigator  for  the 
U.  S.  Civil  Service,  has  been  transferred  to 
Providence  from  the  Boston  office.  He  is 
residing  at  88  Paine  Ave.,  Cranston  10. 

Lester  E.  Hunt  was  awarded  his  Ph.D. 
at  the  University  of  Minnesota  in  Decem- 
ber. 

Welles  Hangen  has  resigned  from  the 
New  York  Times  to  head  the  Cairo  Bureau 
of  the  National  Broadcasting  Company. 
He  had  been  expelled  from  Moscow  re- 
cently, the  Soviet  government  claiming 
that  he  violated  privileges  of  taking  photo- 
graphs while  on  a  tour.  He  had  been  with 
the  Times  since   1949. 

Dom  Sperduti,  teacher  at  Durfee  High, 
Fall  River.  Mass.,  reports  a  good  early 
sale  on  his  book,  "For  You  I  Commit 
Murder,"  published  by  the  Christopher 
Publishing  House  of  Boston. 

Fred  Govain  has  been  appointed  Scout 
Executive  of  Monadnock  Council  of  Gard- 
ner, Mass.  He  had  been  Assistant  Scout 
Executive  and  Camp  Director  at  the  Pom- 
peraug  Council  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Paul  Yelavich  of  Clifton,  N.  J.,  has  been 
promoted  by  the  Prudential  Insurance 
Company  to  Assistant  Manager  in  the 
Sickness  and  Accident  Claim  Division.  He 
had  been  serving  as  a  Claim  Advisor. 

Dr.  Harold  Ludman  is  completing  his 
second  year  as  Resident  Physician  in  In- 
ternal Medicine  at  the  Brooklyn  Veteran's 
Administration  Hospital.  He  will  go  into 
private  practice  after  a  third  year  at  this 
hospital.  They  have  two  sons,  Mark  David, 
born  in  December,  1 954,  and  Neil  Charles, 
born  in  December,  1956. 

1950 

A  quick  glance  at  the  records  shows  that 
the  men  of  '50  are  doing  their  part  to 
actively  support  the  Brown  Clubs  across  the 
country.  No  less  than  28  of  our  classmates 
are  listed  as  officers  of  these  various 
organizations.  A  year  ago,  20  men  of  the 
Class  were  thus  engaged. 

The  list  of  the  men,  their  office,  and  their 
Club  is  as  follows:  Presidents — Robert  F. 
King,  Buffalo;  Robert  F.  Hague,  Eagle 
Rock,  N.  J.;  Kenneth  List,  Fall  River;  Herb 
Wieboldt,  Lackawanna,  N.  J.;  Norris  L. 
O'Neill,  Hariford;  Edwin  Levis,  Jr.,  St. 
Louis;  Vice-Presidents — John  F.  Dator, 
Fall  River;  Anthony  A.  Combias.  Lacka- 
wanna, N.  J.;  Robert  H.  Cowgill,  Los 
Angeles;  Richard  W.  Bracket!,  Northeast- 
em  N.  Y.;  Henry  Barksdale,  St.  Louis;  John 
F.  Kimball,  Western  Maine.  Secretaries — 
Edward  J.  Davidson,  Alta  California, 
Donald  C.  Hutchison,  Connecticut  Valley; 
Fred  Kozak,  Fall  River;  Hardy  L.  Payor, 
Florida;  Thomas  J.  Costello,  Northeastern 
N.  Y.;  Eugene  J.  McNally,  Syracuse;  Rich- 
ard B.  Phillips,  Washington,  D.  C;  Arthur 
F.  Murphy,  Western  Pennsylvania;  Charles 
H.  Bradley,  II,  Executive  Secretary,  New 
York.  Treasurers — Edgar  W.  Swanson, 
Central  New  Jersey;  Maurice  Van  Kave- 
laar,  Delaware;  Paul  Thompson,  Georgia; 
Edward  B.  Corcoran,  Newport;  Directors 


MARCH    19.57 


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ADOLPH  G.  ABRAMSON,  who  received  both  of 
his  graduate  degrees  from  Brown  University,  is 
the  new  Director  of  Economic  Planning  for  SKF 
Industries,  Inc.  He  has  been  with  SKF  since  1940, 
for  the  lost  seven  years  as  Manager  of  the  Com- 
mercial Research  Department.  He  is  o  member  of 
the  Business  Research  Advisory  Council  of  the 
U.S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  and  has  served 
national  and  governmental  agencies  in  his  field. 
"Business  Forecosting  in  Practice,"  of  which  he  is 
co-author,   was   recently   published. 

— Ralph  H.  Seifert,  Boston  and  Framing- 
ham;  Stoughton  Ellsworth,  Framingham; 
Fred  Baurenfield,  Long  Island. 

Fred  Diehl  was  on  his  way  from  Alex- 
andria when  Duncan  Grant  "54  met  him  in 
Tripoli  in  January.  Earlier  he'd  been  at 
the  American  Embassy  in  Beirut,  suggest- 
ing a  specialty  in  Middle  Eastern  affairs. 

Bill  De  Nuccio  and  Gene  Gallant 
journeyed  down  from  the  State  House  to 
attend  the  last  Class  Luncheon.  Bill,  in  fact, 
has  been  a  regular  customer  since  the 
meetings  started  in  October.  He  is  in  the 
Department  of  Administration.  Gene  has 
been  Administrative  Assistant  to  Governor 
Roberts  since  1955. 

Jack  Ellsworth,  the  voice  of  WHIM, 
Providence,  back  around  1947-48,  is  Pro- 
gram Director  at  WALK,  Patchogue, 
"Long  Island's  most  powerful  radio  sta- 
tion." Jack,  who  also  does  some  disc-jockey 
work  each  day,  "concentrates  on  the  better 
music  of  today  (of  which  there  is  little) 
pliis  plenty  of  the  great  hits  from  the 
'thirties  and  early  'forties."  In  addition  to 
his  regular  radio  duties,  he  does  a  special 
hour  show  each  day  called  "Memories  in 
Melody,"  in  which  he  features  nothing  but 
the  old  standards.  Jack  has  a  large  private 
collection  of  these  old  hits,  a  fact  which 
gives  him  a  decided  advantage  over  the 
average  disc  jockey.  In  his  spare  time,  he 
is  raising  two  fine  sons,  managing  a  Little 
League  Baseball  team,  teaching  a  Sunday 
School  Class,  and  participating  in  Kiwanis 
activities,  where  he  is  First  Vice-President. 
Last  year,  when  Kiwanis  staged  a  charity 
ball.  Jack  was  able  to  get  the  recently  re- 
organized Glenn  Miller  band  to  appear. 

Bob  McCann  has  been  transferred  from 
San  Francisco  to  Taft.  Calif.,  by  the 
Standard  Oil  Company.  He  is  an  Analyst  in 
charge  of  Organization  and  Accounting. 

Giles  Powell  has  moved  to  Albany, 
where  he  is  a  salesman  with  the  Dixie  Cup 
Company. 


Roy  Pearson  is  living  in  Washington 
while  working  for  the  Atomic  Energy  Com- 
mission. 

Dave  Rothman  headed  the  committee 
which  planned  a  reunion  of  Classical  High 
School's  class  of  January,  1947,  held  Feb. 
9. 

The  Class  extends  its  sympathy  to 
Harold  Harris  on  the  death  of  his  father, 
William  H.  Harris,  Jan.  11,  in  Providence. 

Lt.  E.  Franklin  Stone,  called  into  the 
Navy,  will  leave  his  medical  training  be- 
hind for  the  time  being.  He  finished  two 
and  one  half  years  at  the  Rhode  Island 
Hospital  in  January,  the  first  year  as  an 
intern,  and  the  second  as  a  Junior  Assistant 
Resident  in  Medicine.  The  last  six  months 
were  spent  as  a  Resident  in  Pediatrics. 

Bob  Kulason  is  a  Patent  Attorney  with 
the  Texas  Company.  He's  located  at  135 
East  42nd  St.,  N.  Y. 

Chester  Thomas  worked  in  the  North 
Carolina  area  this  winter  and  early  spring 
as  a  Cartographer  with  the  U.S.  Geological 
Survey. 

Ted  Brown  is  the  Branch  Manager  in 
Utica,  N.  "V.,  for  the  Automobile  Mutual 
Insurance  Company  of  America.  His  office 
is  located  in  the  First  National  Bank  Build- 
ing. 

BOB  CUMMINGS 

1951 

John  Besozzi,  out  of  the  service,  is  work- 
ing as  an  insurance  agent  with  his  father's 
firm,  the  John  F.  Besozzi  Insurance  Agency 
in  Torrington,  Conn. 

L.  Donald  Jaffin,  after  serving  two  years 
with  the  Army  as  a  Special  Agent  in  the 
Counter  Intelligence  Corps,  has  returned 
to  his  former  position  as  an  Assistant 
United  States  Attorney  in  the  Eastern  Dis- 
trict of  New  York. 

Albert  Watkins,  previously  with  Collier's 
Philadelphia  ad  sales  office,  has  joined 
Time  Magazine. 

Malcolm  L.  Daniels,  Cranston  Republi- 
can City  Committee  Chairman,  has  been 
appointed  as  Executive  Secretary  to  Mayor 
Earl  A.  Colvin.  Daniels  is  associated  with 
Z.  Daniels  Company,  Providence  crockery 
firm. 

1952 

Jerry  Berkelhammer  received  his  Ph.D. 
degree  in  Chemistry  Jan.  9  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Washington  in  Seattle.  He  has 
accepted  a  position  with  the  American 
Cyanamid  Company  in  Stamford,  Conn. 

Albert  Fournier  is  a  Research  Chemist 
with  the  U.S.  Rubber  Company  in  Passaic, 
N.  J.  He  is  in  the  Research  and  Develop- 
ment Department. 

Ira  L.  Keats  was  discharged  from  the 
service  Dec.  26  and  is  employed  with  Keats 
Motors,  Inc.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

Joe  Motherway  is  a  Mechanical  Engi- 
neer with  the  Electric  Boat  Division  of  the 
General  Dynamics  Corporation,  Groton, 
Conn. 

Dave  Brodsky  conducted  a  series  of 
round  table  discussions  on  studies  by  the 
Harvard  Business  School  in  Trenton  in 
January.  He  is  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the 
Educational  Testing  Service  of  Princeton, 
N.  J. 

Ralph  S.  Cunningham  is  one  of  14  stu- 
dents at  the  Harvard  Law  School  elected  as 
members  of  the  Harvard  Voluntary  De- 
fenders. He  is  a  second-year  student  at  the 
Law  School. 

1953 

Dwight  Freeburg  is  about  to  be  dis- 
charged from  the  Navy,  where  he  has  been 


since  graduation.  He  received  his  Commis- 
sion from  OCS  in  January,  1954,  and  spent 
the  next  16  months  on  the  USS  Monterey, 
a  small  aircraft  carrier  stationed  at  Pensa- 
cola,  Fla.  Since  July  of  1955  he  has  been 
attached  to  the  Fleet  Training  Group  in 
Guantanamo  Bay,  Cuba,  as  a  Communica- 
tion Instructor. 

George  Bender  is  studying  at  the  North- 
eastern University  Law  School  for  a 
Doctor  of  Jurisprudence  degree.  He  was 
discharged  from  the  service  last  August 
after  two  years  of  active  duty. 

Reece  T.  Clemens  is  the  Advertising 
Production  Manager  with  Viking  Air 
Products,  Cleveland. 

1954 

Richard  L.  Amill  is  associated  with  Life 
Magazine  as  a  Retail  Representative.  His 
territory  is  Westchester  County  and  Lower 
Connecticut. 

Pvt.  John  W.  Leahy  has  been  graduated 
from  the  Parts  Supply  course  at  the  Army's 
Armor  Training  Center,  Fort  Knox,  Ky. 

Ens.  Duncan  Grant  of  the  USS  Macon 
writes  from  Valencia,  Spain:  "Just  a  few 
days  ago  I  bumped  into  Fred  Diehl  '50  in 
Tripoli,  Libya.  We  had  both  been  scattered 
by  the  Suez  trouble — on  opposite  sides: 
Fred  from  Alexandria,  while  my  port  of 
departure  was  Haifa.  We  celebrated  our 
good  fortune  of  meeting  where  the  desert 
meets  the  sea  by  swapping  many  tales  of 
College  Hill." 

1955 

2nd  Lts.  Richard  J.  DePatie  and  James  T. 
Egan  received  the  silver  wings  of  an  Air 
Force  jet  pilot  recently  at  Laredo  Air 
Force  Base,  Tex.  The  graduation  cul- 
minated 14  months  of  intensive  pilot  train- 
ing. 

Barry  Burnham,  who,  incidentally,  is  call- 
ing himself  Jim  now,  is  enthusiastic  about 
his  Physics  study  at  the  University  of  Con- 
necticut. He  hopes  to  have  all  his  degree 
requirements  out  of  the  way  by  June  of  this 
year,  for  his  Master  of  Science. 

Henry  Juncker  has  just  made  LTJG 
along  with  the  rest  of  the  class.  His  ship, 
the  Great  Sitkin,  is  undergoing  overhaul  in 
the  Navy  yard  at  Hoboken,  and  luckily, 
Hank  could  get  home  for  the  holidays. 

Lew  Kaplan  is  presently  studying  law  at 
the  University  of  Virginia  Law  School, 
where  he  had  the  honor  to  be  elected  to  the 
Phi  Delta  Phi,  international  legal  fraternity. 

Joe  Hilton  is  tearing  things  up  down 
there  too,  and  I  understand  from  Hank  that 
Joe  is  a  member  of  the  Law  School  Pub- 
lication, Tlie  Reading  Guide,  and  the  year- 
book. The  Barrister.  Joe  started  at  Brown 
an  excellent  organization  called  the  Inter- 
national Relations  Club. 

Bill  Joel  and  his  wife  are  at  Cherry 
Point,  N.  C.  Bill  is  still  with  the  Marines. 

Derek  Stedman  has  a  new  daughter 
named  Linda  who,  he  says,  is  taking  up  a 
lot  of  his  time  these  days.  To  make  room 
for  the  new  addition  he  and  his  family 
have  moved  out  to  White  Plains,  N.  Y. 

I  have  seen  quite  a  bit  of  Marty  Schwal- 
berg  around  Quonset  Point,  and  he  is  not 
sure  if  he  likes  being  driven  around  in  the 
Navy's  AD's.  He  says  they  sound  like  a 
washing  machine,  and  he  doesn't  see  how 
they  get  off  the  ground  at  all.  I  had  lunch 
some  time  ago  with  him  and  the  class 
scholar,  Dave  Kunstler.  Dave  has  had 
pretty  extensive  Combat  Information 
schooling  and  enjoys  it  a  great  deal. 

Mixie  and  I  drove  up  to  Providence  the 
other  day  to  see  Warren  llchman,  but  he 
was  attending  some  conference  in  Wash- 
ington. Sounded  to  us  like  a  pretty  big  deal. 


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BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY 


Headquarters  for  a  Quest 


IN  THE  FIGHT  against  cancer,  there  are 
few  more  strategic  centers  than  the  Ros- 
coe  B.  Jackson  Memorial  Laboratory  at 
Bar  Harbor,  Me.  The  successor  to  the 
famous  Dr.  Clarence  C.  Little  as  its  Di- 
rector is  Dr.  Earl  L.  Green,  who  did  his 
graduate  work  at  Brown  University.  He 
assumed  his  new  duties  in  October.  An- 
nouncement of  Dr.  Green's  appointment 
and  Dr.  Little's  retirement  after  27  years 
with  the  Laboratory  added  special  signifi- 
cance to  its  27th  annual  meeting  last  Au- 
gust. 

"Dr.  Green's  appointment  was  made 
after  careful  consultation  with  a  number  of 
important  organizations  and  individuals 
familiar  with  him  and  his  work,"  Dr.  Little 
said.  "The  reactions  were  unanimously 
enthusiastic.  I  have  known  Dr.  Green 
since  his  student  days,  and  we  have  had 
him  as  a  summer  investigator  at  the  Labo- 
ratory. He  is  familiar  with  the  Laboratory's 
past,  is  in  touch  with  its  present  program, 
and  has  a  fine  vision  and  devoted  confi- 
dence in  its  future." 

Dr.  Green  came  to  Brown  after  gradua- 
tion from  Allegheny  College  in  1935.  He 
received  his  M.S.  and  Ph.D.  in  genetics 
after  studies  in  the  Department  of  Biology, 
in  1937  and  1940  respectively.  After  a  Fel- 
lowship year  at  the  University  of  Chicago, 
he  joined  the  Faculty  of  Ohio  State  Uni- 
versity in  1941,  advancing  to  the  rank  of 
full  Professor.  He  was  a  geneticist  to  the 
Division  of  Biology  and  Medicine,  U.S. 
Atomic  Energy  Commission  from  1953  to 
1955  and  was  Editor  of  the  Ohio  Journal  of 
Science.  His  field  of  research  has  concerned 
the  developmental  and  quantitative  genetics 
of  the  house  mouse. 

The  Jackson  Laboratory  owes  its  incep- 
tion, inspiration  to  Dr.  Little,  who  con- 
tinues his  affiliation  with  its  program.  His 
greatest  contribution  to  medical  progress 
has  been  the  development  of  standardized 
inbred  strains  of  mice  whose  important 
uses  facilitate  research  into  such  diseases 
of  man  as  cancer,  muscular  dystrophy,  and 


arthritis.  The  Department  of  Biology  has 
long  had  close  association  with  the  work  at 
Jackson  Laboratory. 

Mrs.  Green,  the  former  Margaret 
Creighton,  is  a  scientist  in  her  own  right, 
her  field  of  research  being  radiation 
cytology  and  mouse  genetics.  She  received 
her  Master  of  Science  degree  from  Brown 
in  1937  after  graduation  from  Connecticut 
College.  She  was  an  Assistant  on  the  Brown 
Faculty  during  her  studies  here.  She  be- 
came a  Research  Assistant  at  Iowa  Uni- 
versity while  earning  her  doctorate  and  has 
continued  her  scientific  investigations  at 
Ohio  State.  For  one  two-year  period  she 
was  a  biologist  for  the  National  Science 
Foundation. 


DR.   EARL   L.   GREEN 


I  am  taking  a  Law  degree  by  correspond- 
ence at  LaSalle  in  Chicago  to  keep  from 
losing  all  contact  with  the  outside  world. 

DOC  HOinc 

1956 

Ens.  Carl  Gable  sent  a  letter  that  was 
full  of  information  about  classmates  and 
we're  very  thankful  for  his  efforts.  He,  Bob 
Norton.  Nick  Cappazolli,  Brad  Greer,  and 
last  year's  wrestling  captain.  Joe  Muse,  are 
living  in  a  house  in  Georgetown  while  serv- 
ing duty  with  the  Navy  in  Washington. 
They  have  become  affiliated  with  the 
Brown  Club  there  and  planned  to  attend 
the  Feb.  20  meeting  honoring  Dr.  Keeney. 
Bob  and  Carl  are  with  the  Office  of  Naval 
Intelligence.  Nick  and  Brad  are  with  Com- 
munications, and  Joe  is  with  Naval  Ordi- 
nance as  Procurement  Officer.  Their  ad- 
dress is  2041  Huide  Koper  PI.,  N.'W.. 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Bill  Romano  is  in  London  with  the  Navy, 
and  Wilder  Lucas  has  been  transferred  to 
the  Naval  Judge  Advocate  Office  from  a 
ship  at  sea.  Carl  writes  that  he  and  Wilder 
are  luncheon  companions. 


The  Marines  have  not  been  idle,  and  I'm 
happy  to  report  that  the  Hughes  twins  have 
been  somewhat  disrupted  by  Dick's 
marriage.  I'm  sure  that  the  whole  Class 
wishes  him  and  his  bride  the  best  of  luck. 
Both  Guy  and  Dick,  and  also  Dave 
Morean,  are  stationed  at  Quantico. 

Dave  Thompson  is  with  a  "moth  ball 
fleet"  in  Glen  Cove,  Fla.,  and  Steve  You- 
man  is  in  Washington  with  the  National 
Security  Agency.  John  Golden  is  also  at- 
tached to  the  Navy  in  Washington,  serving 
in  communications. 

Ens.  Dick  McKenny  is  another  Navy 
man  who  swells  our  "moth  ball"  ranks. 
Dick  is  now  in  Philadelphia.  Noel  Field  is 
at  Fort  Meade.  Md. 

Ex  Bruin  gridiron  captain,  Jim  McGuin- 
ness,  is  helping  to  train  recruits  at  Bain- 
bridge  Navy  Base,  Md. 

Bruce  Lovell  is  planning  on  taking  a  wife 
in  the  near  future.  He's  in  Washington  with 
the  Navy. 

Bob  Sterling  was  graduated  from  OCS  at 
Newport  and  has  headed  to  "see  the  sea." 

Pete  Nachajski  is  a  student  at  the  George 
Washington  University  Medical  School. 


Dan  Morrissey,  narrator  on  the  popular 
"Wriston  and  Brown"  recording,  is  in  the 
Foreign  Service  School  at  Georgetown. 

Ralph  Goodrum  has  been  ushered  by  the 
Navy  to  Newfoundland,  where  he  will  help 
refuel  planes  flying  the  great  circle  route 
from  the  U.S.  to  Europe. 

Carl  Gable  wrote  that  he  and  Norton 
brought  a  boat  all  the  way  down  to  Wash- 
ington from  Massachusetts  and  have  been 
doing  a  great  deal  of  sailing  in  their  "off" 
time.  They  also  took  a  special  course  in 
Soviet  Intelligence  Operational  Systems  in 
the  State  Department  Foreign  Service  In- 
stitute. 

Dave  Merson  and  Bob  Gordon  are  two 
ex-businessmen  who  have  made  good  starts 
at  odd  occupations.  Bob  was  working  with 
the  Gordon  Doll  Company,  but  he  has 
"retired"  to  serve  some  time  with  the  Army. 
He  is  a  medic  at  Ft.  Hood,  Tex.,  and  ex- 
pects to  head  for  Germany  soon.  Dave  was 
engaged  in  the  toupe  and  wig  business  in 
Lewiston,  Me.,  and  reportedly  has  several 
Broadway  actors  as  clients.  He,  too,  is  now 
with  the  Army,  as  a  clerk  typist  at  Fort  Dix, 
N.  J. 

Ex-WBRU  executive  Don  Silverman  is 
still  working  on  captive  audiences.  He's 
with  the  Psychological  Warfare  School  at 
Fort  Bragg,  N.  C. 

The  New  York  Central  Executive  Train- 
ing Division  hasn't  been  enough  to  check 
Jerry  Jerome.  He's  enrolled  in  night  classes 
at  Columbia  while  living  at  106  McClean 
Ave.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

Also  at  Columbia  working  for  a  Master's 
in  Education  is  Tom  Dacey. 

Bernie  Iser  is  working  as  an  Assistant  in 
production  and  direction  for  CBS. 

Tom  Bernstein  is  currently  waiting  as- 
signment with  the  Army. 

Jim  Gagliardi,  working  in  Hartford  for 
Connecticut  General  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, claims  the  distinction  of  being  the 
only  '56  fellow  to  get  back  to  Brown  every 
weekend  thus  far.  There  must  be  some  at- 
traction in  Providence  other  than  the 
Campus! 

Norm  Cowen  is  at  Penn  Medical  School 
along  with  Ed  Forman,  Lou  Shaffer,  and 
Evans  Diamond. 

Ens.  and  Mrs.  Charlie  Flather  (the 
former  Sandra  Jean  McCain,  P  '56)  are 
awaiting  Charlie's  new  assignment. 

By  the  way,  how  about  all  you  recently 
married  chaps  letting  me  know  so  that  I 
can  enroll  you  in  the  Future  Fathers  of  '56. 
Then,  when  some  new  arrivals  come,  let  us 
have  the  information,  and  we'll  mail  you  a 
certificate  of  enrollment  for  your  boy  in  the 
Class  of  '78,  which  we  are  sponsoring.  The 
ladies  of  the  future  class  at  Pembroke  also 
will  be  registered.  My  new  address  is  the 
Lawyers  Club,  University  of  Michigan, 
Ann  Arbor. 

2nd  Lt.  Denny  Bearce  is  with  the  U.S. 
Marines  at  Quantico. 

Basil  Tanenbaum  is  doing  graduate  work 
in  Science  at  Yale. 

Jim  Kelly  is  at  the  Andover  Newton 
Theological  Seminary. 

Bob  Walls  reports  that  he  is  with  the 
Chemstrand  Corporation  in  New  York. 

Add  the  name  of  Bob  Elkins  to  our  '56 
future  lawyers.  He's  at  Rutgers  now. 

Art  Lewry  is  doing  advanced  and  inter- 
esting work  with  the  Chrysler  Institute  of 
Engineering  in  Detroit. 

Ex-Commander  of  Sigma  Nu,  Pete  Shut- 
kin,  is  following  in  his  father's  footsteps. 
He's  enrolled  at  Cornell  Medical  College 
and  is  living  at  1300  York  Ave.,  N.Y.C. 

Bill  Dyer  is  working  with  the  H.  C. 
Wainwright  Company  in  Boston. 


MARCH   1957 


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Larry  Hatch  is  doing  graduate  work  at 
Purdue. 

Don  Trott  is  also  at  graduate  school.  He 
selected  Columbia. 

George  Chapman  is  with  Jordan  Marsh 
in  Boston. 

Ens.  John  Seid  has  been  assigned  to  the 
Bureau  of  Naval  History  in  Washington. 

Another  former  Bruin  pigskin  star,  2nd 
Lt.  Dom  Balogh,  is  with  the  Air  Force  in 
Georgia.  He  and  his  charming  wife,  Ann, 
are  living  on  Route  #6,  Colonial  Heights, 
Moultrie,  Ga. 

Bob  Campbell  is  with  Chrysler  Corpora- 
tion at  Birmingham,  Mich.,  as  a  member  of 
the  Technical  Training  Division. 

Al  Perrino  is  doing  graduate  work  at 
Notre  Dame  and  living  in  Mishawaka,  Ind. 

Former  Lambda  Chi  Alpha  President, 
Frank  Regan,  is  a  2nd  Lt.  with  the  Marines. 
He  reports  his  hfe  as  "tough  but  good." 

Ken  Morley  is  a  student  at  the  Boston 
University  School  of  Medicine,  and  he  and 
his  wife,  popular  Pembroker  Peg  Clune, 
live  at  50  Peterboro  Ave.,  Apt.  39,  Boston. 

Dwight  Doolan  has  exchanged  his  Chase 
Manhattan  Bank  outfit  for  the  garb  of  an 
officer  candidate  at  Quantico. 

Class  President  Ed  Lary  has  returned  to 
Brown  for  additional  work.  His  address  is 
Box  1037. 

Watch  for  our  '56  News  and  World  Wide 
Report  which  will  be  published  later  this 
spring.  This  will  be  our  first  effort  at  what 
we  hope  will  be  an  annual  class  newsletter. 

I'm  back  at  Michigan  again  after  some 
time   at  home  due  to   the   illness   of  my 


father,  who,  incidentally,  is  feeling  much 
better.  Send  any  and  all  information  for 
this  column  to  me  there  at  the  Lawyers 
Club. 

Martin  V.  Arabian,  located  in  Caracas, 
Venezuela,  reports  that  his  plans  for  the 
future  are  "many."  He  still  intends  to  come 
back  to  the  States  and  become  an  American 
citizen,  figuring  that  within  three  months 
he  can  obtain  an  immigrant  visa  to  re-enter 
the  States.  In  the  meantime,  he  is  working 
there  for  General  Electric  and  hopes  to 
continue  with  them  when  he  gets  back  to 
the  U.  S. 

Henri  Leblond  is  a  graduate  student  at 
Brown  studying  French.  He  is  studying 
under  Prof.  Hunter  Kellenberger,  Chair- 
man of  the  Modem  Language  Division.  He 
has  been  elected  unanimously  for  the  sec- 
ond time  to  the  Presidency  of  the  Associa- 
tion de  la  Jeunesse  Franco  Americaine,  a 
Franco-American  youth  movement  which 
has  chapters  in  all  of  the  six  New  England 
states.  He  also  has  been  appointed  to  the 
Comite  d'Orientation  Franco-Americaine, 
a  committee  with  authority  over  all  Franco- 
American  organizations  in  New  England. 
Finally,  he  is  the  new  Editor  of  Le  Voya- 
geiir  (you  guessed  it,  a  Franco-American 
monthly). 

Robert  Swartz  had  an  opportunity  to 
work  for  the  University  Fund  as  a  City 
Chairman  but  was  forced  to  decline  be- 
cause "the  U.  S.  Army  also  has  desires  on 
my  services  and  I  guess  they  will  have  to 
come  first." 

MARV  WILENZIK 


Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics 


MARRIAGES 

1921 — John  R.  Stevens  and  Miss  Pris- 
cilla  Horr,  daughter  of  the  late  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Frank  Horr  of  Providence,  Nov.  23. 
At  home:  166  Congdon  St.,  Providence. 

1938 — Perry  N.  Shor  and  Miss  Maida 
Somers,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Nathan  Somers 
of  Saugus,  Mass.,  and  the  late  Mr.  Somers, 
June  2.  At  home:  10976  Bluffside  Dr., 
North  Hollywood,  Calif. 

1944 — Paul  A.  Cunningham  and  Miss 
Ruth  Sabina  Woelfel,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Robert  G.  Woelfel,  of  Larchmont,  N.  Y., 
and  the  late  Mrs.  Woelfel,  Dec.  8. 

1944 — Harvey  M.  Steiner  and  Miss 
Diane  Kathleen  Roth,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
Lester  L.  Roth  and  the  late  Mr.  Roth  of 
San  Francisco,  Oct.  7.  Joseph  I.  Steiner  '37 
was  best  man  for  his  brother. 

1949 — J.  Pierce  Anthony  and  Miss  Dor- 
othy Eva  Fitzpatrick,  daughter  of  Mr. 
William  M.  Fitzpatrick  of  Wingdale,  N.  Y., 
Jan.  6.  At  home:  Apt.  304,  116  North 
Carolina  Ave.,  S.F.,  Washington  3,  D.  C. 

1950 — Edgar  D.  Beacham  and  Miss 
Jane  Ann  Buckalew,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Raymond  Buckalew  of  Bloomsburg, 
Pa.,  Jan.  12.  Ushers  included  Norman  E. 
Wright  '49. 

1950^John  A.  Blackball  and  Miss 
Evelyn  Mitchell,  daughter  of  Mr.  Earle  A. 
Mitchell  of  Pleasantville,  N.  Y.,  and  the 
late  Mrs.  Mitchell,  Dec.  L  Best  man  was 
James  O.  Alexander  '51. 

1951- — John  E.  Alden  and  Miss  Suzanne 
Slater  of  Evanston,  111.,  in  April,  1955. 

1951 — A.  Laney  Lee  and  Miss  Ann  Day 
Collins,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 


Collins  of  St.  Louis,  Dec.  21.  Best  man  was 
George  N.  Diederich  '52. 

1951 — Elwood  E.  Leonard,  Jr.,  and  Mrs. 
Barbara  M.  Holmes  of  Providence,  in  July. 
The  bride  is  Pembroke  '46. 

1951 — Richard  B.  Pemstein  and  Miss 
Dorothy  R.  Cotton,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Harry  M.  Cotton  of  Worcester,  Mass., 
Dec.  16.  Ushers  included  Arthur  Jacobson 
'50.  The  bride  is  Pembroke  '58.  At  home: 
77-9  Park  Ave.,  Worcester. 

1952 — William  L.  de  Prosse,  Jr.,  and 
Miss  Rosalind  Velva  Clapp,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Paul  S.  Clapp  of  New  York  City,  and 
the  late  Mr.  Clapp,  Jan.  19.  Father  of  the 
groom  is  William  L.  de  Prosse  '26. 

1952 — Peter  Lombard!,  Jr.,  and  Miss 
Louise  Emma  Thomas,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Everett  K.  Thomas  of  Provi- 
dence, in  October. 

1952 — Marc  I.  Rowe  and  Miss  Joyce 
Josephine  Tetreault,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dewey  J.  Tetreault  of  Whitinsville, 
Mass.,  Dec.  16. 

1952 — Eugene  F.  Tortolani  and  Miss 
Lucy  Ann  Brubaker,  daughter  of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Warren  I.  Brubaker  of  Annville,  Pa., 
Dec.  29.  Ushers  included  Russell  Gower, 
Robert  Marsello,  and  James  Sweet  all 
Brown  '52.  The  bride  is  Pembroke  '55.  At 
home:  34  North  Lake  Shore  Dr.,  Barring- 
ton,  R.  I. 

1953 — Craig  Gambee  and  Miss  Mary 
Elizabeth  Hall,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  W.  Hall  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  16. 

1953— Hugh  J.  Gourley,  III,  and  Miss 
Janet  Wilhelmina  Heller,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
William  C.  Heller  of  Fast  Providence,  and 
the  late  Mr.  Heller,  Dec.  29.  Ushers  in- 
cluded Martin  J.  Kantor  '54.  Father  of  the 


groom  is  Hugh  J.  Gourley,  Jr.,  '22.  The 
bride  was  given  in  marriage  Ijy  her  brother- 
in-law,  Stephen  Prager  '47.  The  bride  is 
Pembroke  '53.  At  home:  462  Park  Dr., 
Boston. 

1953 — Kenneth  L.  Green,  III,  and  Miss 
Marion  Marino  Bischoff,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Edward  G.  Bischoff  of  St.  Louis, 
Jan.  12.  The  groom's  brother,  Nat  Green 
'56  served  as  best  man.  Ushers  included 
Peter  Bower  '52,  George  Diederich  '52, 
and  James  Mooney  '53. 

1953 — Lloyd  Provost,  Jr.,  and  Miss 
Cherry  Collins,  niece  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ethan  D.  Alyea  of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  Jan.  5. 
Best  man  was  Bruce  Freitag  '52.  Ushers 
included  David  Lownes  '53,  William  Pol- 
leys  '54,  Jack  Hopkins  '54,  and  Donald 
Barber  '54.  The  bride  is  Pembroke  '55. 
Bridesmaids  included  Janet  Cabrera,  Pat 
Goodman,  Carlyn  Wegner  Hopkins,  and 
Elizabeth  Kreusler,  all  Pembroke  '55.  At 
home:   211   Orange  Rd.,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

1954 — Donald  H.  Breslow  and  Miss 
Joan  Swartz,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Morris  Swartz  of  Pawtucket,  Dec.  25. 
Ushers  included  Frank  Curhan  '54.  At 
home:  102-45  62nd  Road,  Forest  Hills, 
N.  Y. 

1955 — Joseph  R.  Blumberg  and  Miss 
Betty  Lou  Perlroth,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Adolph  Perlroth  of  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  Dec.  20. 

1955 — John  D.  O'Brien  and  Miss  Anne 
Murphy,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Neale 
D.  Murphy  of  Cranston,  Oct.  13.  At 
home:  6880  Meadowbrook  Blvd.,  Apt. 
449,  St.  Louis  Park,  Minn. 

1956 — Daniel  C.  Boynton  and  Miss  Janet 
Kay  Jannsen,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Thomas  C.  Jannsen  of  Bristol,  R.  I., 
Dec.  29. 

1956 — William  L.  Demchak  and  Miss 
Marie  Louise  Clemens,  daughter  of  Mr. 
John  D.  Clemens  of  Lake  City,  Pa.,  and 
Mrs.  Joseph  H.  Newton  of  Geneva,  111., 
Nov.  26.  The  bride  is  Pembroke  '58.  At 
home:  Apt.  28,  Fleetwood  2012,  Tele- 
phone Rd.,  Houston,  Tex. 

1956 — Lt.  Dwight  M.  Doolan  and  Miss 
Sarah  Leslie  Chapman,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Gurdon  T.  Chapman  of  Killing- 
worth,  Conn.,  Dec.  23.  Ushers  included 
James  H.  Rogers,  Jr.,  '56  and  James  M. 
DeMund  '56.  The  bride  is  Pembroke  '58. 
At  home:  515  Pitt  St.,  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

1956— Richard  E.  Kendall  and  Miss 
Cynthia  Carragher,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Mil- 
dred Carragher  of  Falmouth,  Mass.,  Dec. 
20. 

1956 — Wesley  M.  Vandervliet  and  Miss 
Anne  McCarty,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Clinton  McCarty  of  Torrington,  Conn. 
and  New  York  City,  Dec.  29. 

1956 — Charles  H.  Weingarten  and  Miss 
Jane  Adele  Albertson,  Pembroke  '57, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Murray  Albert- 
son  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  Dec.  23.  Ushers 
included  John  Cutler  '56,  Joe  Sheffer  '56, 
and  Leonard  Rubin  '54.  At  home;  174 
Winthrop  Rd.,  Brookline. 

1958 — Edmund  R.  Gilmartin,  Jr.,  and 
Miss  Barbara  Ann  Hewitt,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  F.  Hewitt  of  Provi- 
dence, Dec.  29. 

BIRTHS 

1931— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  M.  Ru- 
tan  of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  their  fourth  child, 
a  son,  John  Craig,  Jan.  1. 

1942 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gene  Keenoy, 
Jr.,  of  North  Caldwell,  N.  J.,  their  third 
child  and  first  daughter,  Patricia,  Sept.  24. 

1945— To    Mr.    and    Mrs..   R.    Harper 


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BROWN  ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


Brown  of  Berwyn,  Pa.,  twin  daughters, 
Nancy  Richardson  and  Linda  Walters,  Jan. 
10.  The  Browns  now  have  four  daughters. 

1945— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  E.  Fer- 
guson of  Niantic,  Conn.,  their  third  child 
and  second  daughter,  Alicia  Anne,  Nov.  26. 

1946— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Saul 
of  Providence,  their  third  son,  David  For- 
rester, Jan.  21.  Grandfather  is  William  H. 
Edwards  '19. 

1948— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morton  J. 
Marks  of  North  Chevy  Chase,  Md.,  a  son, 
Peter  Andrew,  Jan.  6. 

1948— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  I.  Wil- 
cox of  Providence,  their  third  child  and 
second  daughter,  Carol  Ann,  Dec.  30. 

1949 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Matthew  Aron- 
son  of  Allentown,  Pa.,  a  second  son,  Henry 
Roy,  Dec.  6. 

1949— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alan  S.  Flink 
of  Providence,  their  second  son,  Philip 
Jay,  Aug.  24. 

1950 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  A.  Dilling- 
ham of  Westfield,  Mass.,  their  second  child 


and  first  son,  Stephen  John,  Jan.  10. 
Grandfather  is  Albert  E.  Dillingham  '18. 

1950 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harvey  Lapides 
of  Barrington,  twins,  Robert  Mark  and 
Jane  Ann,  Dec.  9. 

1950— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dallas  B. 
Trammell  of  Kenmore,  N.  Y.,  a  daughter, 
Victoria  Anne,  Dec.  29. 

1951— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Franklin  O. 
Rose,  Jr.,  of  Providence,  their  second  child 
and  first  daughter,  Susanne  Junipher,  Jan. 
20.  Grandfather  is  Franklin  O.  Rose, 
former  Professor  of  Engineering  at  Brown. 

1951— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donald  E. 
White  of  Newport,  their  third  child  and 
first  daughter,  Andrea  Mason,  Jan.  1.  Mrs. 
White  is  the  former  Gloria  Mason,  Pem- 
broke '53. 

1952— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gerald  Berkel- 
hammer  of  Seattle,  a  daughter,  Jill  Barbara, 
Nov.  27. 

1952— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  Scott  Sugden 
of  Madras,  India,  a  son,  George  Scott,  Jr., 
May  31. 


In  Memoriam 


NATHAN     WHITMAN     LITTLEFIELD 

'99  in  Sharon,  Mass.,  Jan.  21.  He  had 
been  a  civil  engineer  for  the  New  Haven 
Railroad  until  his  retirement  in  1943. 

PHILIP  DARRELL  SHERMAN  '02  in 
Townshend,  Vt.,  Jan.  8.  After  receiving 
his  A.M.  from  Brown  in  1903,  he  be- 
came an  instructor  in  English  at  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University.  He  had  been  a 
Professor  at  Oberlin  College  for  35  years 
where  he  served  as  Director  of  the  Ober- 
lin College  Dramatic  Association.  He 
was  awarded  an  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Letters  from  Parsons  College 
in  1941.  A  noted  collector,  he  had  an 
extensive  private  library  of  rare  books, 
first  editions,  manuscripts,  and  associa- 
tion items  of  the  literary  great,  which  he 
had  used  with  unusual  effectiveness  in 
his  teaching  and  with  benefit  to  scholar- 
ship in  general.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Delta 
Upsilon. 

MARTIN  STUART  HALL  '05  in  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y.,  July  22.  An  electrical  engi- 
neer, he  had  been  with  the  Seneca  En- 
gineering Co.,  in  Montour  Falls.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  American  Society  of 
Electrical  Engineers,  the  Professional 
Engineering  Society  Steuben  Chapter, 
and  had  been  Historian  of  the  Cornell 
Chapter  Electrical  Engineering  Society. 
Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

ALBERT  EASTON  WHITE  '07  in  Ann 
Arbor,  Dec.  18.  Professor  Emeritus  of 
Mechanical  Engineering  at  The  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  and  Director  Emeritus 
of  the  University's  Engineering  Research 
Institute,  he  was  recognized  as  one  of 
that  institution's  outstanding  teachers, 
administrators,  and  research  scientists. 
During  World  War  I,  he  served  as  head 
of  the  Inspection  Division  of  the  Ord- 
nance Department  of  the  U.S.  Army 
and  attained  the  rank  of  Lieutenant 
Colonel  in  the  Reserve  Corps.  During 
the  Second  World  War  he  was  Chairman 
of  the  Metallurgical  Research  Commit- 
tee of  the  National  Defense  Research 
Council  and  a  member  of  the  Metallur- 


gical Committee  of  the  Office  of  Scien- 
tific Research  and  Development.  He  was 
founder  and  first  President  of  the  Amer- 
ican Society  of  Metals  and  was  President 
of  the  American  Society  for  Testing 
Materials.  He  served  as  a  manager  and 
was  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Society  of 
Mechanical  Engineers,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Chemical  Society, 
the  American  Institute  of  Mining  and 
Metallurgical  Engineers,  the  Engineering 
Foundation,  and  the  Engineering  Society 
of  Detroit.  He  was  an  honorary  life 
member  of  the  American  Ordnance  As- 
sociation. In  1925  he  was  awarded  an 
honorary  Doctor  of  Science  degree  by 
Brown.  He  was  the  author  of  ten  books 
and  numerous  articles  on  metallurgy, 
and  his  work  as  a  consultant  gave  him 
wide  and  varied  experience.  His  sister 
was  the  late  Mabel  White  Norton,  Pem- 
broke '00.  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Phi  Kappa 
Phi.  Phi  Lambda  Upsilon.  Sigma  Xi. 
Tau  Beta  Pi. 

LEWIS  HAMILTON  MEADER,  JR.,  '09 

in  Providence,  Jan.  1.  A  noted  tree  sur- 
geon, he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
National  Shade  Tree  Conference.  For 
years  his  company  cared  for  the  elms 
of  the  Brown  Campus.  He  had  been 
active  in  Masonic  organizations  and  in 
patriotic  societies  as  a  great-great  grand- 
son of  Gen.  Nathanael  Greene.  He  also 
served  the  Episcopal  Diocese  of  R.  I.  as 
a  Field  Committeeman.  His  sons  are 
Brenton  G.  Meader  '39  and  Richard  D. 
Meader  '43.  Sigma  Chi. 

GEORGE  WALLER  PARKER  '10  in  New 
York  City,  Jan.  II.  A  well-known  artist 
in  this  country  and  abroad,  he  had  ex- 
hibited at  the  Paris  Salon,  the  Durand- 
Ruel  Gallery,  the  Chicago  Art  Insti- 
tute, the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Fine 
Arts,  and  the  National  Academy  of  De- 
sign. His  works  are  in  the  Rochester 
Memorial  Art  Gallery,  Newark  Mu- 
seum, New  York  Historical  Society,  and 
the  Navy  Building  at  Washington.  He 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Salmagundi 
Club,  Portland  Art  Society,  and  Societe 
Coloniale  des  Artistes  Francais.  Beta 
Theta  Pi. 


CHARLES  G.   RICHARDSON   '00 
(His  obrtuory  will  appear  next  month) 

ELLIOT  HAROLD  FALK  '15  in  Darien, 
Conn.,  Dec.  29.  A  New  York  stock- 
broker, he  had  been  with  Delafield  & 
Delafield.  At  one  time  he  owned  a  seat 
on  the  Stock  Exchange.  During  World 
War  I  he  served  in  France  as  a  Lt.  in 
the  Field  Artillery.  He  was  with  the 
War  Production  Board  in  Washington 
during  World  War  II.  Delta  Upsilon. 

EVARISTE  ADRIEN  ORTEIG  '20  in 
New  York  City,  Jan.  30.  He  was  Co- 
Manager  of  the  famous  Lafayette  Ho- 
tel, which  was  for  50  years  a  landmark 
and  a  shrine  for  gourmets.  Founded  by 
his  father,  it  was  carried  on  by  Evariste 
and  his  brothers  until  1949.  He  also 
assisted  in  the  management  of  the  Hotel 
Brevoort  until  it  was  sold  in  the  depres- 
sion. In  the  last  10  years,  he  was  a 
partner  with  his  brothers  in  Lafayette 
Travel,  Inc.,  a  tourist  agency  of  which 
he  was  Vice-President.  Earlier  he  had 
been  active  in  the  same  field  as  Presi- 
dent of  Evariste  Orteig,  Inc.  He  served 
in  the  Navy  in  World  War  II.  (The 
father  made  the  $25,000  offer  which 
stimulated  Lindbergh's  flight  across  the 
Atlantic.)  Alpha  Tau  Omega. 

WILLIAM  RAUCH  BOGER  '26  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Jan.  26.  A  stockbroker, 
he  had  been  associated  with  the  invest- 
ment firm  of  Auchincloss,  Parker  and 
Redpath.  He  also  was  on  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Coastal  Corporation. 
Well-known  in  yachting  circles,  he  was 
on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Presi- 
dent's Cup  Regatta  Committee.  Phi 
Delta  Theta. 

THOMAS  CLIFTON  MORRIS  "28  in 
Lexington,  Mass.,  December  15.  A  re- 
search chemist,  he  had  been  with  the 
B.  B.  Chemical  Co.  in  Cambridge  since 
1937.  In  1930  he  had  received  his  Mas- 
ter's degree  from  Western  Reserve.  He 
had  been  an  active  Mason  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Chemical  Society. 
Sigma  Xi. 

HOWARD  WILSON  MEMMOTT  '33  in 
Glastonbury,  Conn.,  in  December.  An 
electrical  engineer,  he  had  been  Indus- 
trial Sales  Manager  of  the  Connecticut 
Light  &  Power  Co.  He  was  a  former 
Vice-Chairman  of  the  New  England 
Power  Engineers  Association  and  was  an 
active  Rotarian.  Sigma  Phi  Sigma. 


MARCH    1957 


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Carrying  the  Mail 


NICHOLAS 

BROWN: 

"\  have  caused 

this  edifice  to 

be  erected  wholly 

at  my  expense." 


Apology  to  Nicholas 

Sir:  I  owe  Nicholas  Brown  an  apology. 
Until  you  published  your  memorial  medley 
of  lore  and  legend  about  Hope  College,  1 
had  always  thought  of  Mr.  Brown  as  a 
shrewd  man  who  got  a  lot  for  a  little.  This 
was  based  on  something  that  I  heard  or 
read  to  the  effect  that,  when  the  Corpora- 
tion offered  to  name  Rhode  Island  College 
for  anyone  who  would  give  it  $6000,  there 
were  no  takers.  When  the  asking  price  was 
reduced  to  $5000,  Nicholas  Brown  then 
came  forward,  as  I  heard  it.  In  the  light  of 
history,  it  seemed  a  spectacular  bargain. 

But  you  point  out  that  this  was  neither 
his  first  nor  his  last  gift  to  the  institution. 
I  hadn't  realized  that  he  also  gave  Hope 
College  ("I  have  caused  this  Edifice  to  be 
erected  wholly  at  my  expense").  I  hadn't 
appreciated  that  he  also  gave  us  Manning 
Hall  and  a  law  library  and  a  gift  which 
established  the  Library  Fund,  too.  The 
total  of  $160,000  which  you  say  he  gave 
would  be  quite  a  tidy  sum  if  translated  into 
today's  values. 

So,  forgive  me,  Nicholas  Brown.  I  did 
you  an  injustice.  Now  I  am  more  than  ever 
proud  to  be  a  Brown  man. 

"humble  pie  '42" 

(Appreciation,  however  late,  must  always 
be  welcome  to  a  doer  of  magnificent  deeds. 
The  story  of  the  reduced  rate  for  naming 
Rhode  Island  College  does  have  some  basis 
in  fact.  In  1795,  the  Corporation  did  say 
that  anyone  who  gave  $6000  might  have 
the  honor  of  naming  the  University.  A  let- 
ter to  that  effect  went  to  Dr.  Richard  Fur- 
man  of  South  Carolina,  who  later  did  have 
a  college  named  for  him  there  in  1826,  but 
no  one  came  forward  for  us.  As  early  as 
1783,  President  Manning  had  sought  some 
"Gentleman  of  Fortune  who  wishes  to  rear 
a  lasting  Monument  to  his  Honour."  and 
letters  went  to  John  Ryland  and  Thomas 
Llewellyn  in  England  about  the  matter,  to 
no  avail.  The  Corporation  was  still  trying 
in  1803,  with  a  $5000  gift  specified,  and  it 
was  not  until  a  year  later  that  Nicholas 
Brown,  Jr.,  of  the  Class  of  1786,  came 
forward.  Perhaps,  as  Treasurer  of  Rhode 
Island  College,  he  was  hoping  someone 
else  would   be  attracted   by   the  proposal. 


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This  almost  suggests  that  he  would  have 
been  generous  to  his  Alma  Mater,  even 
without  the  glory  that  was  to  be  his. — Ed.) 

Credit  for  Fogarty 

Sir:  In  the  recent  issue  of  the  Bronii 
Alumni  Monthly  (January),  I  was  very 
much  interested  in  the  lead  article  on  re- 
search grants  which  have  been  made  to  the 
University.  There  was,  however,  one  thing 
which  struck  me  as  I  read  it — Representa- 
tive Aimee  J.  Forand  announced  the  grant 
from  the  Health  Service  Research  Facili- 
ties Act.  The  article  then  goes  on  to  state 
that  he,  Forand,  was  the  active  member  of 
Congress  from  Rhode  Island  who  worked 
to  get  this  legislation  through  Congress. 

Representative  John  Fogarty  is  the  one, 
however,  who  has  worked  so  closely  with 
all  the  health  legislation.  The  announce- 
ment was  made  through  Repressntative 
Forand's  office  since  apparently  it  is  a  mat- 
ter of  courtesy  to  have  the  representative 
in  whose  district  the  grant  is  to  be  made  to 
have  the  honor  of  announcing  it.  However, 
I  don't  think  Forand  ought  to  get  Fogarty's 
credit  line  on  the  Health  Legislation. 

MRS.  JOHN   LANGDON 

R.  I.  Society  for 

Crippled  Children  and  Adults 

Hope  College  Nostalgia 

Sir:  "Vour  entertaining  history  of  Hope 
College  brings  back  many  a  pleasant  mem- 
ory of  my  three  years  there.  Two  of  them, 
very  different,  stand  out: 

During  our  College  years,  Floyd  Collins' 
imprisonment  in  a  Kentucky  cave  was  front 
page  news  for  several  days.  This  gave  my 
fraternity  brothers  an  idea.  On  the  second 
or  third  floor  of  Hope  was  a  tiny  closet  that 
housed  the  chapter  telephone.  (Dne  evening, 
while  I  was  making  a  call,  the  brothers  de- 
cided I  was  Floyd  and  they  would  rescue 
me.  The  door  was  nailed  tight. 

Amidst  great  excitement,  I  was  exhorted 
to  keep  my  courage  up:  help  was  coming. 
With  complete  disregard  of  plaster,  pails 
of  water  were  poured  from  the  floor  above 
for  my  parched  throat.  Slices  of  very  passe 
food  were  shoved  through  cracks  in  the 
door,  accompanied  by  comments  intended 
to  be  witty  which  were  to  keep  up  my  mo- 
rale. After  a  half-hour  of  imprisonment, 
the  door  was  ripped  down,  and  I  was  car- 
ried to  the  nearest  couch  andgiven  arti- 
ficial respiration  that  darned  near  killed 
me.  Nowadays,  when  my  son  tells  of  some 
fantastic  escapade.  I  try  to  remember  that 
I  was  the  Floyd  Collins  of  Hope  College. 

The  other  incident  was  more  intellectual. 
During  the  '20s,  when  pacificism  was  popu- 
lar, one  of  the  brothers  (now  a  distin- 
guished editorial  writer)  made  the  remark 
that  every  military  chaplain  was  either  an 
ass  or  a  hypocrite.  That  started  the  bull 
session.  His  thesis  was  based  on  the  futility 
of  war  and  its  being  inconsistent  with 
Christianity.  This  boy  knew  his  Bible  and 
could  quote  paragraph  and  verse.  Being 
able  to  document  his  statements  and  having 
a  quick  mind,  he  withstood  all  attempts  by 
some  30  Kappa  Sigs  to  break  down  his  ar- 
gument. A  couple  of  Junior  Phi  Betes  were 
thrown.    While    the    session    lasted    only 


some  three  or  four  hours,  the  repercussions 
lasted  for  days  and  were  not  confined  to 
the  Campus. 

While  the  new  Quadrangle  buildings  are 
far  more  elegant  than  Hope  College  in  the 
'20s,  I  doubt  if  they  stimulate  any  more 
challenging  thinking.  Pardon  this  long  epis- 
tle, but,  if  you  will  write  articles  that  make 
bald-headed  and  middle-aged  alumni  nos- 
talgic, you  must  suffer  the  consequences. 

DAVID  FANNING  '25 

Grafton,  Mass. 

What  It  Looked  Like 

Sir:  I  read  your  interesting  story  on 
Hope  College.  While  going  through  some 
papers  a  night  or  two  afterward,  1  came 
across  the  pictures  of  my  Dad's  room  in 
Hope.  As  he  graduated  from  Brown  with 
the  Class  of  1905,  these  pictures  were  prob- 
ably taken  around  that  time.  I  thought  you 
might  be  interested  to  see  how  a  College 
room  looked  in  those  days. 

WALTER  G.   BARNEY   '35 

Rumford,  R.  I. 

(Dad  was  Walter  H.  Barney  '05.  For  two 
of  the  four  wonderful  pictures,  see  the  fac- 
ing page. — Ed.) 

To  Float  a  Battleship 
Sir:  After  reading  about  Hope  College, 
I  am  not  surprised  the  grand  old  building 
has  to  be  restored.  Although  I  was  never 
quartered  in  Hope,  I  knew  many  that  were. 
If  the  student  pattern  hasn't  changed  in  135 
years,  I  would  say  it  is  a  testimonial  to 
New  England  oak. 

The  dank  smell  in  the  halls  is  nostalgic, 
recalling  the  tons  of  water  that  flowed  down 
her  staircases.  Enough  water  has  flowed  in 
Hope  College  to  float  one  of  Uncle  Sam's 
mightiest  battleships.  It's  a  wonder  she 
hasn't  rotted  away. 

E.  L.  sherrill,  jr.  '46 
East  Hampton,  N.  i'. 

"Si  Moinimentiim  .  .  ." 
Sir:  Here's  a  real  addendum  to  your  re- 
cent discussion  about  the  proper  form  of  the 
phrase,  "Si  monumentum  requiris  circum- 
spice,"  the  inscription  about  Wren  in  St. 
Paul's  Cathedral  which  has  its  echo  on  the 
plaque  for  the  Wriston  Quadrangle.  You 
will  recall  a  challenge  from  New  Haven  on 
the  basis  of  another  usage  at  Yale. 

James  Bone's  "London  Echoing"  (J. 
Cape  1948)  has  a  reference  on  page  54  in  a 
section  on  bomb  losses  in  the  Second  War: 

"The  high  explosive  bomb  that  hit  the 
north  transept  .  .  .  brought  down  the  in- 
side porch  that  bore  the  famous  epitaph  on 
Wren:  'Si  monumentum  requiris  circum- 
spice.'  When  the  new  tablet  is  in  the  re- 
paired porch,  the  names  of  .  .  .  the  gallant 
Watch  should  surely  be  inset." 

BEN  C.  CLOUGH 

".  .  .  Requiris" 

Sir:  My  letter  in  more  stately  form, 
attached  hereto,  may  come  as  rather  a 
shock  to  you.  However,  I  am  sure  my  staff 
colleagues  on  the  Classics  side  will  not  find 
translation  beyond  them,  and  I  trust  the 
niceties  and  innuendoes  therein  will  not 
escape  them  either. 

Perhaps  the  story  behind  this  correspond- 
ence should  remain  a  subject  for  conjecture 
for  your  readers  (and  yourself),  tem- 
porarily at  least — but  I  enclose  a  leaflet 
used  by  the  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  authorities 

BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY 


Hope 
College 
in  1904 

{See  letter.) 


MARCH    195: 


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in  London  for  their  great  Restoration 
Appeal.  You  will  find  on  the  reverse  the 
Wren  inscription  as  written  for  me  by  one 
of  the  Canons  of  the  Cathedral. 


/  Carberrius  Acii/letniae  Fusctie  S.l>. 

Ego,  epislulis  vestris,  quae  mense  lulio 
editae  sunt,  diligentissime  perlectis,  ad  vos 
defenendos  Londinium  proficisci  Statui. 

Omnia  igitur  preicula  Oceani  caelique 
Britanni  passus,  ad  templum  Paul!  tandem 
perveni.  Quo  facto  vos  certiones  nunc  facere 
possum,  illam  inscriptionem,  Reguli  honoris 
causa  insculptam,  haec  ipsa  verb  ferre, 

"Lector,  si  monumentum  requiris,  cir- 
cumspice." 

Rursus  Academic!  Fusci  superavisse 
videntur.  Non  est  rursus  quaerendum. 

Eheu,  var  clavium  fabricatoribus  (qui, 
ubi  gentium  habitant?). 

Londinii,  prid.  Kal.  Oct. 

(Professor  Josiah  Carberry  gave  his  ad- 
dress as:  %  L.  C.  Reynolds,  Esq.,  88  Wads- 
worth  Rd.,  Wallington,  Surrey,  England.) 

(His  communication  reminds  us  that 
President  Keeney  and  Vice-President  Ap- 
pleget  recently  received  this  verse  in  a  tele- 
gram from  Thomas  Mott  Shaw,  hon.  '51, 
architect  of  the  Brown  quadrangles: 

1  mix  with  men  whose  brows  are  high 

And  often  heave  a  mighty  sigh 

And  wish  that  often  I  had  sat  in 

With  those  who  taught  and  studied  Latin, 

For  then  1,  too,  could  make  a  bow 

And  in  strange  lingo  say,  "Here's  how." 


Cancer  can't  strike  me, 
I'm  hiding. 


*^A' 


Cancer? 


The  American  Cancer 
Society  says  that  too 
many  people  die  of  it, 
NEEDLESSLY  >  That's  why 
I  have  an  annual  medical 
checkup  hoivever  well  I 
feel.  I  know  the  seven 
danger  signals.  And 
when  I  want  sound 
information,  I  get  it 
/row  my  Unit  of  the 

AMERICAN  CANCER  SOCIETY 


T» 


The  Stine.ss  Guards 

Sir:  An  excellent  editorial  in  the  Provi- 
dence Joiinud  said  last  fall  that  in  the  1904 
presidential  election,  Mr.  Roosevelt  "car- 
ried every  State  in  the  Union  except  Mary- 
land." Actually,  of  course,  Alton  B.  Parker, 
the  Democratic  candidate,  carried  a  dozen 
States,  but  Roosevelt  did  indeed  win  a 
sweeping  victory. 

The  national  result  was,  no  doubt,  largely 
due  to  a  parade  held  in  Providence  on  Nov. 
5,  1904,  in  which  I  participated  as  a  mem- 
ber of  a  valiant  band  called  "Stiness 
Guards."  This  was  composed  largely  of 
Brown  undergraduates  who  were  too  young 
to  vote,  organized  on  behalf  of  the  cam- 
paign of  John  H.  Stiness,  who  resigned  as 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Rhode  Island  on  Nov.  2,  1904.  (History 
will  not  regard  the  fact  that  he  was  de- 
feated as  significant  in  view  of  the  contri- 
bution which  the  Stiness  Guards  made  to 
what  the  Journal  described  in  flaming  head- 
lines on  the  front  page  as  a  "Campaign 
Parade  Such  As  the  City  or  State  Has  Never 
Before  Seen.") 

An  impressionistic  drawing  of  this  splen- 
did spectacle  appears  on  an  inside  page  of 
the  Nov.  5  issue,  where  it  is  stated  that  in 
one  of  the  divisions  was  "Capt.  John  Gam- 
mons ('98)  with  his  Stiness  Guards  of  the 
First  Ward,  75  men."  The  division  was  "ex- 
cellently marshalled  by  Lieut.  H.  D.  C. 
Dubois  ('98).  who  was  assisted  by  Herbert 
Dean  as  Chief  of  Staff." 

We  of  the  Stiness  Guards  bravely  bore 
the  taunts  of  Democrats  lined  along  the 
sidewalks.  They  chanted  a  campaign  song 
which,  as  I  recall  it,  envisaged  a  group  of 
Democrats  going  to  the  White  House  on 
the  next  day  and  addressing  the  occupant 
in  these  well-chosen  words: 

"Good  morning,  Mr.  Roosevelt! 
Allow  us  to  present 
Just  the  man  whom  we've  selected 
In  your  place  as  President. 
Go  wash  the  White  House  china 
And  all  the  linens  starch; 
Get  an  able  metal  marker. 
Stamp  the  doorplate  'A.  B.  Parker.' 
Goodbye,  Teddy,  you  must  march,  march, 
march! 

Certainly  the  doorplate  on  the  White 
House  (if  there  ever  was  one)  was  never 
stamped  "Alton  B.  Parker,"  and  the  Roose- 
velt family  did  not  have  to  do  those  house- 
hold chores  for  a  new  tenant  until  1909. 

CLAUDE  R.   BRANCH  '07 

Providence 


More  on  Aaron  Lopez 

Sir:  A  further  point  about  Aaron  Lopez 
may  be  of  interest,  apropos  of  your  refer- 
ence to  Dr.  Bruce  M.  Bigelow's  paper  on 
him.  I  quote  from  the  December,  1954, 
issue  of  the  Rhode  hhind  Jewish  Historical 
Notes: 

"He  (Aaron  Lopez)  carried  on  an  ex- 
tensive business  with  the  Browns  of  Provi- 
dence, taking  the  greater  part  of  their 
production  of  iron  at  the  Hope  Furnace. 
Nicholas  Brown  and  he  were  partners  in 
various  ventures.  At  the  solicitation  of 
Nicholas  Brown,  he  contributed  10.000 
board  feet  of  lumber  to  the  first  building  of 
Brown  University,  University  Hall." 

Although  the  University  was  founded  by 
Baptists,  it  was  unusually  liberal  so  far  as 
Jews  were  concerned,  in  a  day  when 
religious  intolerance  was  the  rule.  If  you 
want  more  im  the  relationship  of  early 
Brown  with  the  Jews,  you  will  find  an  ex- 


PROF.  W.  FREEMAN  TWADDELL  hos  been 
named  President  of  the  Linguistic  Society  of 
America.  A  former  Associate  Director  of  the 
Linguistic  Institute  of  America,  he  was  in 
1952  the  second  American  to  be  named  to 
the  International  Committee  of  Linguists. 
For  his  second  successive  summer  he  will  re- 
turn to  Japan  this  year  as  a  consultant  on 
the  teaching  of   English. 


cellent  statement  in  "American  Overture" 
by  Abram  V.  Goodman. 

DAVID    C.    ADELMAN    '14 

President,  R.  I.  Jewish 
Historical    Association 

Matches  of  Yesteryear 

Sir:  There  was  an  unexpected  dividend 
for  me  as  I  finished  reading  the  talk  by  Gen. 
David  Burchinal  '38  in  your  issue  for  De- 
cember. I  refer  to  the  photo  of  him  as  an 
undergraduate  posing  in  an  attitude  of  in- 
tensive study  at  cramming  time.  Down  on 
the  desk  before  him  was  a  folder  of  Brown 
Union  matches,  with  a  Bear  perched  in  the 
large  B. 

Only  the  other  day  I  picked  up  some  of 
the  current  match  folders,  which  had  the 
same  decoration  upon  them.  I  think  they 
were  the  same  kind  we  had  "in  my  day." 
What  a  joy  to  discover  that  some  of  the 
gadgets  of  higher  education  on  the  Hill 
continue  unchanged.  Progress  we  need — 
I  do  not  protest.  But  we  also  cherish  our 
vital  links  with  the  past. 

MOSSBACK 

(Alas  for  Joe  Mossback!  Most  of  the 
match-folders  are  restyled,  too,  in  a  fresh, 
modern  spirit.  Our  intensive  research  in 
Faunce  House  yields  only  the  new  design, 
attesting  that  even  here  we  march  toward 
Tomorrow. — Ed. ) 

Highland  Encounter 

Sir:  Showed  Josiah  Carberry  your  men- 
lion  of  the  Hartford  Times  editorial  link- 
ing him  with  the  Loch  Ness  Monster.  He's 
currently  in  Scotland,  checking  (Carberry, 
that  is )  on  Scottish  pots.  He  reports  that, 
whilst  swimming  in  said  Loch  on  Oct.  3. 
he  saw  the  monster  in  question.  "It  vaguely 
resembled  a  Harvard  man,"  Carberry  ob- 
served. 

.TOHN   CUTLER   '56 

Edinburgh 


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BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


Carberry's  Golf 

Sir:  A  mutual  friend  has  called  my  at- 
tention to  an  article  in  your  November  issue 
about  Prof.  Josiah  Carberry.  What  startled 
me  most  was  the  statement  that  he  was 
alleged  to  have  shot  a  106  on  the  Bay 
Course  of  the  Seaview  Club  of  Absecon, 
N.J. 

It  is  hard  for  me  to  believe  that  his  golf 
game  has  so  deteriorated.  I  have  had  the 
pleasure  of  playing  golf  with  this  enchant- 
ing personality  on  many  occasions.  1  have 
always  found  him  an  excellent  golfer  and  a 
terrifically  long  and  accurate  hitter.  He  is 
the  only  man  I  have  ever  known  to  have 
three  holes-in-one  in  one  round  on  our  Old 
White  Course  at  The  Greenbrier. 

The  odd  part  of  this  fact  is  that  I  now 
recall  his  commenting  at  the  time  that  it 
was  Friday,  the   13th — his  lucky  day. 

SAM   SNEAD 

White  Sulphur  Springs,  W.  Va. 

(We  hesitated  to  use  the  name  of  one  of 
golf's  great  figures  to  bolster  Josiah  Car- 
berry's  ego.  But  the  "mutual  friend"  and 
pupil,  John  J.  Roe,  Jr.,  '27,  vouches  for 
Snead's  genuine  interest  in  the  case.  With 
his  oath  on  a  stack  of  golfballs,  we're  will- 
ing to  admit  these  holes  to  a  record  already 
under  par. — Ed.) 

When  You've  Finished 

Sir:  In  disposing  of  my  copies  of  the 
Brown  Alumni  Monthly.  I  have  used  them 
in  boosting  Brown  by  re-mailing  them 
to  Various  places — for  example,  the 
Remuda  Ranch,  Ariz.,  to  a  future  Fresh- 
man prospect:  to  Hilary  of  New  Zealand, 
etc.  What  an  advantage  Brown  is  missing  it 
the  alimini,  after  reading  the  magazine,  do 
not  send  it  along  to  people  who  otherwise 
would  not  so  readily  know  about  the  Uni- 
versity. 

N.  W.  DEXTER  '95 

Santa  Monica,  Calif. 


PROVOST  SAMUEL  T.   ARNOLD: 


The  Faculty's  Minute 


The  Faculty  of  Brown  University  adopted 
the  following  minute  at  its  January  meet- 
ing in  tribute  to  the  late  Pro\o.st  Samuel  T. 
Arnold  '13.  Its  author  is  the  Chairman  of 
the  Department  of  Chemistrx.  Prof.  Rob- 
ert H.  Cole: 


THE  QUALITY  of  a  University  as  a  living 
institution  owes  much  to  the  devoted 
service  of  those  who  grow  along  with  it. 
The  service  of  Sam  Arnold  to  Brown  was 
under  the  administration  of  four  Presi- 
dents, and  there  is  no  one  person  who  can 
speak  fully  of  all  this  meant.  At  the  same 
time,  there  are  few  who  have  known  Brown 
in  40  years  who  cannot  tell  of  some  way, 
large  or  small,  in  which  he  touched  their 
lives  as  part  of  the  life  of  the  institution  he 
loved. 

Samuel  T.  Arnold  graduated  with  the 
class  of  1913,  having  already  received  his 
first  responsibility  as  a  Senior  Assistant  in 
Chemistry  under  John  Howard  Appleton. 
For  some  years  after  he  completed  his  doc- 
torate in  1916,  Chemistry  could  keep  a 
principal  part  of  his  attention  as  he  pro- 
gressed from  Instructor  to  a  Professorship 
in  1930.  But  the  rare  qualities  that  were 
Sam  Arnold  could  not  be  confined  to  a  lab- 
oratory, and  his  guidance  was  from  the 
beginning  sought  for  other  University  af- 
fairs. 

The  wider  roles  of  influence  developed 
with  appointments  as  Dean  of  Undergrad- 
uates, of  the  College,  of  the  University  and 
finally  as  Provost.  The  University  was  re- 
warded by  ever-increasing  accomplishment. 


They  Remember  Percy  Marks 


\  LTHOUGH  only  a  member  of  the  Brown 
.1  ».  Faculty  for  three  years,  few  were  so 
affectionately  remembered  by  his  students 
as  Percy  Marks,  who  died  in  New  Haven 
on  Dec.  27.  It  was  a  period  when  a  strong 
group  of  undergraduates  who  aspired  to 
writing  were  stimulated  by  him,  between 
1921  and  1924. 

Not  one  to  set  much  store  on  graduate 
degrees,  Marks  had  been  told  by  President 
Faunce  in  1923  that  his  appointment  would 
not  be  renewed  after  another  year.  He 
turned  to  writing  of  his  own  in  the  summer 
vacation  prior  to  that  last  year,  and  "The 
Plastic  Age"  was  a  result.  (Some  newspa- 
per obituaries  repeated  the  old  legend  that 
he  had  been  dismissed  because  of  the  book, 
but,  actually,  it  was  the  other  way  around. ) 
A  best  seller,  it  brought  Marks  his  greatest 
fame  and  was  printed  in  several  languages. 
It  became  a  movie,  starring  Clara  Bow,  the 
symbol  of  the  flapper  of  that  period.  Marks 
insisted  that  the  locale  was  not  any  one 
college  campus  (he  had  taught  at  Dart- 
mouth and  M.I.T.  before  coming  to 
Brown),  but  the  fictional  institution  was 
thought  to  have  some  realism. 

Something  of  a  gadfly  in  academic  cir- 
cles, Marks  wrote  a  number  of  essays  in  a 
book  called  "Which  Way  Parnassus?"  Al- 


though it  sold  fewer  than  3000  copies,  sev- 
eral of  the  essays  have  been  widely  re- 
printed. One  was  pungent  about  what  he 
regarded  as  the  futility  of  getting  a  Ph.D. 
degree. 

Marks  found  to  his  amazement  that 
some  critics  regarded  "The  Plastic  Age" 
as  muckraking,  he  said  he  was  only  trying 
to  "present  dramatically  both  the  good  and 
bad  in  undergraduate  life."  He  felt  college 
should  be  for  the  intellectual  aristocracy: 
"Many  college  boys  should  have  been  sent 
to  trade  schools."  He  found  many  profes- 
sors "deadly  bores."  "What  we  need  is  men 
who  can  put  over  fresh  ideas,  "  he  said. 

After  having  tasted  the  success  of  his 
fiction  and  his  lecture  tours,  he  still  felt  the 
attraction  of  teaching.  Of  his  subsequent 
textbooks,  the  most  popular  was  "Better 
Themes,"  a  guide  for  college  freshmen.  It 
sold  more  than  1  10,000  copies.  In  recent 
years  he  taught  English  at  the  Waterbury 
branch  of  the  University  of  Connecticut 
and  had  writing  courses  in  New  Haven. 

He  kept  in  touch  with  many  of  his  Brown 
friends  and  was  often  at  the  meetings  of 
the  Brown  Club  in  New  Haven.  He  lived 
in  suburban  Hamden.  His  wife  is  Ellen 
Gates,  the  painter:  a  daughter  also  sur- 
vives. 


and  still  there  was  time  for  many  new  serv- 
ices to  education,  his  community,  and  his 
country. 

The  record  of  responsible  positions  that 
sought  him  out  is  long  and  impressive,  and 
bears  testimony  to  the  regard  in  which  his 
judgment  and  opinions  were  held.  The 
more  remarkable  quality  is  that  earlier  in- 
terests were  never  lost  as  his  duties  broad- 
ened. 

The  first  love  for  Chemistry  was  re- 
flected in  continuing  happy  association  and 
wise  counsel  for  more  than  40  years.  In 
the  beginning  he  could  stand  by  puzzled 
students  in  the  laboratory  and  taTce  his 
class  on  trips  to  industrial  plants,  and  as 
much  was  learned  of  friendship  as  of 
Chemistry.  Later,  his  instruction  had  to  be 
confined  largely  to  the  staff,  but  they  could 
learn,  if  there  was  danger  of  forgetting, 
that  the  less  gifted  student  was  here  to  be 
helped.  A  Monday  Department  luncheon 
without  his  presence  was  a  rare  occasion, 
and  his  quiet  influence  was  a  source  of 
strength  in  many  ways.  That  Sam  Arnold 
was  always  listed  as  an  officer  of  instruc- 
tion for  Chemistry  was  simple  justice. 

The  many  interests  in  student  afi'airs 
which  began  in  undergraduate  days  marked 
him  early  as  an  adviser  to  student  organi- 
zations, and  the  deeper  qualities  of  un- 
common good  sense  and  warm  humanity 
made  natural  his  appointment  as  dean.  As 
in  so  many  of  his  functions,  the  work  had 
very  directly  to  do  with  people.  The  count- 
less undergraduates  who  came  for  advice, 
help,  or  correction  left  with  more  than  a 
full  measure,  for  Sam's  humanity  was  so 
communicated  that  recollections  are  of 
respect  for  guidance  coupled  with  gratitude 
for  friendship. 

As  larger  duties  came,  Sam  expressed 
regret  that  there  was  less  time  for  students, 
but  it  was  remarkable  that  he  could  know 
so  many  of  them  well.  His  immediate  con- 
cern for  them  was  a  gneat  steadying  force, 
as  he  grew  to  be  the  trusted  adviser  and 
friend  of  all  the  Faculty  and  Administra- 
tion. He  became  a  part  of  virtually  every 
phase  of  University  life,  and  each  was  the 
better  for  his  presence. 

The  many  burdens  could  scarcely  have 
rested  so  easily  without  the  abiding  love 
and  companionship  that  was  his  with  Vera 
Stockard  Arnold.  This  was  transparent  to 
even  the  most  casual  acquaintance,  and  no 
one  could  fail  to  be  warmed  by  it. 

In  all  the  service,  there  was  the  selfless 
devotion  to  the  right  thing  to  do  which 
made  him  justly  called  "the  conscience  of 
the  University."  This  was  no  austere,  ab- 
stract integrity,  but  stemmed  from  a  true 
and  natural  goodness.  There  must  have 
been  many  who  would  have  tried  a  lesser 
faith  sorely:  with  Sam  there  was  the  qual- 
ity that  could  release  others  from  selfish 
petty  concerns.  To  all,  there  came  the  feel- 
ing of  having  known  a  truly  good  man  who 
was  their  friend. 

The  tributes  to  Sam  Arnold  have  come 
from  an  extraordinary  variety  of  sources. 
There  have  been  many  well  earned  cita- 
tions, and  moving  words  of  memorial.  Yet 
each  of  us  will  feel  richest  in  his  own  re- 
membrance: of  wise  advice  given  when 
most  needed,  of  kindness  which  eased  mo- 
ments of  sadness,  and  of  acts  of  simple 
friendship. 


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